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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Examples of "pouch" in Sentences
- Willard was a giant pouched rat.
- The pouch is formed of porous paper.
- The girl put the money in her pouch.
- The sling stone is placed in the pouch.
- The dogs wore a pouched canvas overcoat.
- The pouch is poutted with full of marbles.
- The peoplestressed the importance of the pouch.
- The funnel and fingers are then raised out of the pouch.
- 'Marsupium' is the technical name for the marsupial pouch.
- These pouched rats are named for having cheek pouches much like a hamster.
- So, I went tromping out to get some weather features and test a new camera rain pouch (it's a Pelican collapsible rain pouch and soft-sided blimp - two thumbs up).
- Method's refill pouch is now widely available across the country and according to Method's Katie Molinari will be expanding into other forms of their liquid soaps by March.
- While Europeans are experimenting with milk in pouch style packaging, Walmart's discount club store Sam's Club is switching its gallon milk packaging to a square case-less jug.
- The end of a metaphysical debate timprov: So if you make something that's half muffin and half kangaroo, but then you only frost it inside the pouch, is it a muffin or a cupcake?
- She wore a small buckskin pouch like a locket on neck with the Thoreau newspaper scrap in it and told Trefethan she wished the Thoreau man would happen along so she could marry him.
- Wrapping a lap band around a gastric pouch is an operation that makes no sense and they have just multiplied the problems of a gastric bypass by the problems of the band for limited if any benifit.
- A group of four hospitals, led by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, are starting a large-scale study this spring examining how children respond to various types of weight-loss surgery, including the gastric bypass, in which a pouch is stapled off from the rest of the stomach and connected to the small intestine.