pouch
IPA: pˈaʊtʃ
noun
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
verb
- (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
- (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
- (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
- (obsolete, rare) To pout.
- (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
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