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单词 pocket
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pocketn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpɒkɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑkət/
Forms: Middle English pokete, Middle English poketh, Middle English pokette, Middle English 1600s pokett, Middle English–1600s poket, Middle English–1700s pockett, Middle English– pocket, 1500s pockate, 1500s pockette, 1500s–1600s pokit, 1500s–1700s pocked, 1600s poccet, 1600s poccett, 1600s pockt (probably transmission error), 1600s poocket, 2000s– pawket (English regional (Cornwall)); Scottish pre-1700 pocat, pre-1700 poceat, pre-1700 pockit, pre-1700 pocquett, pre-1700 pokat, pre-1700 pokate, pre-1700 poked, pre-1700 pokeit, pre-1700 pokit, pre-1700 pokquet, pre-1700 polket, pre-1700 poquet, pre-1700 1700s poket, pre-1700 1700s– pocket, 1900s– pockad (Caithness).
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poket.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman poket, pokete (also pochete ) little bag, bag (13th cent.), half-sack of wool, poke (early 14th cent. or earlier) < poke poke n.1 + -et -et suffix1; compare Old French puchete purse (c1180), Middle French pouchet small bag (1396), Middle French, French pochette packet, package (15th cent.; now obsolete), pocket (of an item of clothing) (1596). Compare post-classical Latin pochettus bale, measure of wool (1280 in a British source; also as pocetta, pocettus, pukettus, from late 13th cent.), poke, bag, pouch (1300 in a British source), and also Middle Dutch poket.Earlier currency of the word is perhaps implied by the surname Adam Poket (1210), Robert Poket (1248), although it is uncertain whether this reflects the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word.
A. n.
1. A sack or bag, sometimes used as a measure of quantity. Now chiefly in South African and Australian usage, and in specialist agricultural contexts.As a measure of quantity, varying in capacity according to the commodity contained, and the locality. Now chiefly used for hops and wool, a pocket of wool being half a sack (in 13th cent. a quarter), a pocket of hops about 80–90 kg (180–200 lb).In South Africa used spec. of (a) a large, narrow paper sack for holding potatoes; (b) a large, narrow mesh bag for holding oranges or the like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun]
fetlesc893
pougheOE
codOE
bag?c1225
pokec1300
scripc1300
swag1303
pocket1350
pursec1390
sacketc1440
skyrsaya1500
scrippagea1616
sac1814
savoy bag1854
keister1882
sack1904
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > dry measure > specific dry measure units > bag or sack as unit
pokec1300
sack1314
pocket1350
quarter-sackc1422
mailc1503
bag1679
sugar-bag1963
1280 Memoranda Rolls Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer K. R. m. 13v, Venerunt coram Baronibus et recognoverunt se teneri Bonruncino et sociis suis mercatoribus de Luk' in quatuor saccis lane et uno pochetto, id est in quarta parte unius sacci.]
1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 262 (MED) [Also, in the Chapel there, in a] pokete, [2500 of] wyndounail.
c1395 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 808 Poudres diuerse, asshes, donge, pisse, and cley, Cered poketz, sal peter, vitriole, and dyuers fyres maad of wode and cole.
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 53 (MED) Tak þat tartar and hyng it in some place in a lynnen sacce or pokette.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 189 Of every last of wulle that comyth to oon merchaunt alone, viij d..And ȝif [printed zif] that it be lasse, be takyn of every sak iiij d.; and of every poket [Fr. pokete], iiij d.
1476 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) II. 5 Thomas did write to me that I shuld shippe þe sarpler..and the ij pokets woll.
a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 50 (MED) Se þat your wenyheris haue no poketes between þer legges to stelle withe your corne.
1535 in G. Schanz Engl. Handelspolitik (1881) II. 385 The canvas, that goeth to the pokit with the hey and threde, that goeth to yt, weyeth about 2 nailles.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xiii. 30 The keeper muste fill two great bagges or pockets with small bones, and other good morsels.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nnn2 A Sarpler (otherwise called a pocket) is halfe a Sack (of wool).
1667 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage Inventories Mid-Essex 1635–1749 (1969) 106 In the garett—Wooll, cheeses, two tables, one halfe hundred waight, a pocket of hops and a paire of Skoles, 9 li. 1s.
1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. i. 128 Here [i.e. at Stourbridge Fair] I saw what I have not observ'd in any other Country of England,..a Pocket of Wool. This seems to be first call'd so in Mockery, this Pocket being so big, that it loads a whole Waggon,..and these ordinarily weigh a Ton or 25 Hundred weight of Wool, all in one Bag.
1767 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 130/1 There were only eleven pockets of new hops, the quality of which was very bad.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 755 The brightest hops, and those which have the finest colour, are put into bagging of a better quality, and termed pockets.
1876 S. Kensington Mus. Catal. §2107 Model of a hand loom..designed to weave sacks or pockets without a seam either at the sides or end.
1892 Jrnl. (Grahamstown, S. Afr.) 20 Sept. 1 (advt.) 300 Pockets Sugar.
1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 239 A train of pack horses, heavily laden with the weighty ‘pockets’ of wool, toil meekly past.
1928 E. Wallace Gunner xxiv. 199 Bales of silk, chests of tea, pockets of rubber.
1968 Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 3 Jan. 97 Good-as-new Orange and Onion Pockets at very keen prices for large quantities.
1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 27 Mar. 22/2 Potatoes (pockets). Well supplied, demand poor.
1990 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 27 Oct. 4 Consumers are paying the same price for 10kg pockets of potatoes as they paid for the larger 15kg pockets four months ago.
2000 Western Morning News (Nexis) 13 Nov. 20 Drying of hop cones takes place in a kiln... Next, it is packed into pockets or bales for breweries or for further processing.
†2. A pouch- or pocket-shaped net. Cf. pocket net n. at Compounds 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > net > other nets
stalker1389
pocketc1425
hoop-net1481
hose-net1554
gap-net1727
bag-net1777
hoop1882
skim-neta1884
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 14 (MED) Men sle hares wiþ greyhoundes and with rennyng houndes by strengthe, as in Engelond, but ellis where þei slee hem Also with smale pocketes and with pursuetes and with smale nettis wiþ hare pipes.
3. Any of various sacs or pouch-like cavities in the body of an animal or in a plant. Now chiefly Zoology.
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the world > life > the body > internal organs > [noun] > of specific shape or formation
pocketa1450
cystis1543
vesike1577
vesicle1578
belly1594
ventricle1641
vesicula1705
pouch1712
cyst1721
sac1741
leaflet1826
calyx1828
node1892
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity
pita1275
holec1300
cella1398
den1398
follicle?a1425
purse?a1425
pocketa1450
fossac1475
cystis1543
trench1565
conceptory1576
vesike1577
vesicle1578
vault1594
socket1601
bladderet1615
cistern1615
cavern1626
ventricle1641
bladder1661
antrum1684
conceptaculum1691
capsule1693
cellule1694
loculus1694
sinus1704
vesicula1705
vesica1706
fosse1710
pouch1712
cyst1721
air chamber1725
fossula1733
alveole1739
sac1741
sacculus1749
locule1751
compartment1772
air cell1774
fossule1803
umbilicus1811
conceptacle1819
cœlia1820
utricle1822
air sac1835
saccule1836
ampulla1845
vacuole1853
scrobicule1880
faveolus1882
the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > bag- or bottle-like part
purse?a1425
vesicle1670
vesicula1705
utricle1731
utriculus1753
bladder1777
sac1830
utricule1830
urceolus1832
pocket1862
a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 25 (MED) Apostyme of þe poket [L. burse] of þe testiclis..is callyd comynly hernies or ramyces.
1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 Projects 127/1 The Iceland fishermen..beat the bone upon a block with a thick stick, till the pockets, as they term them, come out easily, and thus preserve the sounds entire.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised iv. 133 I found pollen masses which had their broad ends pushed by insects into this pocket.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 12/1 The bullet had struck between the pocket of the arm and the shoulder-blade.
1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 70 A small walled-off pocket of pus.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xviii. 475 In the ‘marsupial frogs’.., the female has a dorsal skin-pouch, usually opening backwards near the cloaca. Into this pocket the eggs are somehow passed.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) x. 131 These setae are contained in pockets called setigerous sacs.
1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) iv. 105 The secretory areas may take the shape of tubules or of rounded pockets (alveoli or acini).
4.
a. Originally: any small bag or pouch worn on the person (now rare). In later use chiefly: spec. a pouch sewn into or on clothing, for carrying a purse or other small articles.Frequently with preceding modifying word, esp. to indicate the location or form of the pocket, or the garment of which it forms a part; for established compounds see the first element.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket
pocketc1450
pouch1539
pit1811
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > bag or pouch worn on person > [noun]
pocketc1450
pokea1616
placket1655
sack1699
sock1699
groper1789
kick1851
jewel bag1853
jewellery bag1855
sky rocket1887
sky1890
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 62 (MED) ‘Apparaile þe propirli,’ quod Pride, ‘Loke þi pockettis passe þe lengist gise.’
1560 Nice Wanton sig. v Iniqui. I will fele your pocket, by your leaue mestres. Dalila. A way knaue, not mine by the masse.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 192/1 He bare alwayes about hym, in hys bosome or pocket, a litle booke contayning the Psalmes of Dauid.
1626 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1899) 2nd Ser. I. 676 Thair is many that beiris pestolatis in thair pocattis and behind thair bakis.
1667 in State Papers Domestic Charles II (P.R.O.: SP 29/191/63ii) ii f. 153 The right side pockett..and the small pockett or fobb.
1685 Bk. Pretty Conceits sig. B3 A gentleman being in a Throng in the Fair, had his purse pick'd out of his Pocket.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 67 Here walk'd a French Fop with both his Hands in his Pockets.
1736 S.-Carolina Gaz. 15 May 3/1 Just imported in the William, Francis Baker from London, Italian crapes..pockets, small trimmings, in silk and silver, silver open lace, tossils for mantles, new fashion mantles.
1792 C. Smith Desmond xxx On her request for money, I took out a parcel of assignats I had in my pocket.
1833 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 23 Nov. 63/3 Moustache pulled the last paper from his pocket, and pointed to one of the Editor's own brilliant emanations.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy vi The deep pocket of blue striped tick which hung at her side.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxvii. 214 He carried the letter with him in his pocket.
1906 Weldon's Ladies' Jrnl. Sept. 90/3 This theatre pocket is a Parisian novelty, worn suspended from the waist, and is intended to hold the handkerchief, fan, opera glasses, etc.
1923 ‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza 33 I've got a nugget in my shirt pocket that I didn't show you.
1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses i. 24 He was leaning against the bulkhead now, hands deep in his pockets.
2003 M. Ali Brick Lane v. 91 The girl tucked the money into her blouse pocket.
b. Such a receptacle viewed as the repository of a person's money; (hence) a person's stock of cash; financial resources.† empty pocket n. a person without money (obsolete rare).
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun]
coffer1377
pursec1384
possibilityc1385
moneyc1390
financec1475
abilityc1503
purse stringc1530
moyen1547
means1560
financy1600
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wherewith1674
apoinctee1682
funds1700
ways and means1738
money stock1743
pecuniary1748
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ante1843
pocketbook1897
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > person lacking money
sans dener1469
empty pocket1834
stumer1898
skinner1943
1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I3 For your pardons trust to my Lord; but for reward you shall trust none but your owne pockets.
1679 R. L'Estrange Hist. Plot 53 He had been Rewarded by expending Six or seven hundred pounds out of his own Pocket, without knowing whether ever he should see it again.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 311 I would have paid them the money out of my own pocket.
1765 S. Foote Commissary i. 7 The bridegroom may put the purchase-money..into his pocket.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 322 Yon cottager..Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 252 War empties the pocket; no kingdom can go to war with empty pockets.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vii. xxv. 492 The slave-masters were touched in their pockets, and it filled them with fury.
1892 S. Baring-Gould Trag. Cæsars I. 15 Only the empty pockets and lacklands were excluded.
1894 R. Bridges Feast of Bacchus ii. 743 A gentleman can't consider his pocket.
1939 Fortune Oct. 24/3 All that these people eat, and all their typing, and their rooms and tips and carfare put money into the pockets of the Swiss people.
1962 Times 5 July 15/6 Equipment of the highest professional standards, well beyond the pocket of an ordinary record buyer.
1994 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 2 June (Chef Suppl.) 12/1 The new outlet was aimed at the personal pocket rather than the business expense account.
c. A similar pouch-like receptacle in something other than a garment.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > resembling a pocket
pocket1765
society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > parts of cover
lettering piece1783
joint1835
square1835
turn-in1873
tuck1880
doublure1886
paste-down1888
tuck-cover1893
pocket1900
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. viii. 29 He had lost five minutes already, in alighting in order to get at a luncheon of black bread which he had cramm'd into the chaise-pocket.
1786 Daily Universal Reg. 3 Nov. 3/4 Searching the pockets of the chaise, and being again assured that there was no watch in the carriage.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. xiv. 285 With so much changing of chaises..I hope..you have not left any thing behind you in any of the pockets . View more context for this quotation
1857 C. Dickens & W. Collins Lazy Tour ii, in E. H. Rupert Life C. Dickens (1936) 122 Arthur volunteered the loan of a travelling writing-case..; and, bringing it to the bed, shook the note-paper out of the pocket of the case forthwith.
1872 N.Y. Herald 15 Mar. 5/2 I took the saddle pockets off the saddle then, before sundown.
1900 W. W. Rockhill tr. Journey William of Rubruck (1900) Contents Map to Illustrate the Two Journeys... In pocket.
1947 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 29 Oct. (advt.) Overnight bags... Handy lid and side pockets.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 14/1 A pocket for the carriage of documents should be provided.
1990 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 22 Apr. 13 It was the accompanying map—tucked into a pocket at the back of the book—that [etc.].
2003 Mountain, Trek & Trav. (Ellis Brigham Catal.) Autumn–Winter 97 The pack has two main compartments with a zip-out divider, two bellows side pockets for load organisation and versatility, and side compression straps.
5. A relatively small natural or (more usually) artificial cavity or receptacle resembling a pocket in clothing in shape or function.
a. Cookery. An item of food in which a cavity has been made in order to hold a filling. Also (in later use): a (usually savoury) filled pastry or pitta (frequently with modifying word indicating the type of filling); cf. pitta pocket n. at pitta n.2 Compounds.
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1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 53 To make Pockets. Cut three slices out of a Leg of Veal..; give it a slit through the middle, leaving the bottom and each side whole..; then make a Forc'd-meat..and put it into your Pockets, as if you were filling a Pin-cushion.
1911 Chicago Tribune 13 Jan. 8/6 Make a pocket of spareribs by sewing them together. Fill pocket with..dressing.
1952 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 3 Apr. 20 (advt.) Cherry-filled buns. Fresh, crisp Danish pastry pockets filled with cherries and syrup.
1979 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 8 Oct. 9/3 ‘Tuna Your Style’ has 16 recipes... Our favorites include Super Souffle, Middle Eastern Tuna Pockets and Creamy Tuna Fettucine.
1995 BBC Good Food Aug. 44/4 Remove the tentacles from the squid, then pull out the backbone and ink sac from the inside... You will be left with just a pocket of squid.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Sept. 32/2 New York City schools now provide..taco pockets, cheese pockets, a pizza pocket with the toppings inside the dough.
b. Billiards, Snooker, and Pool. Each of the open-mouthed pouches placed at the corners and on each side of the table, into which balls are struck. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table > pocket
hazard1598
hole1688
pocket1744
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 5 Or when the Ball, close cushion'd, slides askew, And to the op'ning Pocket runs, a Cou.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxiv. 286 Gauntlet..struck his antagonist's ball into the pocket, in a twinkling.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. i. §16 At the commencement of the last century, the billiard-table was square, having only three pockets for the balls to run in, situated on one of the sides.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 604/2 The billiard-ball eyes..fell plump..into the pocket of his heart.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 258 They let their adversary spot the red and take the balls out of the pockets.
1902 D. L. A. Jephson in John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (ed. 39) xc He ‘flicks’ the ball as we have all seen many a wrathful billiard player do when returning the white from a most unexpected pocket.
1970 G. Sorrentino Steelwork (1992) 161 There was a ball at the lip of the corner pocket which acted as a deflector for the cue ball.
1995 Snooker Scene May 5/1 Thorburn..missed a relatively straightforward red to a middle pocket.
c. A bag-like termination of a fishing net, within which the fish are trapped. Also: the trap of a weir in which fish are caught. Cf. pocket net n. at Compounds 1.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > bag at end of net
cod1485
bunt1602
hole1630
hose1630
purse1821
cod end1855
pocket1869
pit1883
1869 Times 25 Sept. 8/2 He was the first to set the trap-net of the description of those now used; but before that time pockets or traps were not used in that part of the country.
1890 Cent. Dict. 4577/1 Pocket-net, a fishing-net in which the fish are caught in certain special compartments or pockets.
1907 N.E.D. (at cited word) Pocket,..The trap of a weir in which fish are caught.
1976 Quoddy (Maine) Times 27 Aug. 23/1 Small boats were first used to stop off the fish and herd them into the pocket. Then the purse seine was drawn up, around the pocket in order to draw the fish to the carriers.
d. Originally and chiefly Nautical. A fold or pouch in a piece of canvas or other material, intended to hold in place the end of a spar, batten, etc.
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1872 R. B. Forbes Life-boats 120 In what is called a whaleboat in a frigate..the sprits come to the tack of the sail and shove into a pocket 5 or 6 feet up, so that, when brailed to the mast, you have practically a reefed sail of the shape called ‘shoulder of mutton’.
1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Pocket..6. (Naut.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or light spar can be placed in the interspace.
1938 Times 16 Nov. 6/4 The length of the pockets for the sail battens should be prescribed instead of the length of battens.
1941 M. Gorelik in J. Gassner Producing Play b. ii. 333 Drops, curtains, and cloth borders are finished at the top with webbing, grommets and tie-lines, at the bottom with a pocket for chain-weights or for a wooden or pipe batten.
1989 M. Owen Hang Gliding 74 (caption) The battens are slid into their pockets and tensioned in place with bungies.
1998 Surfstore (Stockton) Catal. 12/3 There have been no fewer than twelve hardware changes throughout the range from material advancements to anti-chafe protective poppers on each batten pocket end to prevent wear.
e. The socket or cavity on each side of a sash window in which the frame runs; (also) = pocket-piece n. 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > window-frame > parts of
snacket1611
window post1658
box frame1693
pocket1881
runway1898
pocket-piece1901
shutter-rebate1901
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §830 A close inspection of the side of frame will show the amateur where the ‘pocket’ A is.
1961 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Times 11 Mar. 14 m/7 Next you will have to get at the sash weight. This is enclosed inside a pocket at the bottom of the frame.
f. A coal bunker on board ship; (also) a small berth or cabin.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > cabin > small
booby-hutch1821
booby house1845
pocket1883
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > storage room or compartment > coal-bunker
coal-hole1801
coal-holdc1826
coal bunker1837
coal bunk1838
bunker1839
pocket1883
1883 Times 26 Sept. 3/5 They coaled from the starboard side,..into the side pockets and thwartship bunkers.
1898 Cent. Mag. Feb. 531/2 The single females are stowed in ‘pockets’ on both sides of the ships.
1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 95 In coaling ship the work of distributing the coal throughout the series of pockets that are plastered all around the engines and boilers is of incredible severity.
1998 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 1 May 11 He had the boat rigged as in your photographs, the interior was rather stark with just the stern cabin as in the fishing days, with pocket berths and the forepeak sail locker habitable.
g. A hollow or cavity cut into a piece of wood.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > hollow cut out in wood carving
pocket1892
1892 E. Rowe Hints on Chip-carving (ed. 2) ii. 33 A combination of triangles and diamonds all treated as sunk pockets.
1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 73 A pocket, large enough to receive the screw head, is cut on the inside of the rail with a gouge.
1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Mar. t5 A series of pockets is cut in the 2-by-4s so that the brace lies flush with the outside of the wall.
1991 Woodturning Winter 29/1 I then scrape a pocket in the item I want to inlay and glue the Tagua into place.
h. Mountaineering and Rock Climbing. A hole in a rock face providing a handhold.
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1957 R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 120 Pockets, handholds into which the fingers can be placed. These are common in outcrop climbing on sandstone and gritstone, as a result of water erosion.
1987 High Mar. 46/2 The holds were tiny pockets and sidepulls.
2004 Rock & Ice Jan. 84/3 Stein pulling opposes an ice tool's pick against its head in cracks, pockets and underclings. Leashless climbing multiplies the Stein Pull's utility, allowing you to match hands or drape a heel, toe or leg over the tool.
6.
a. Chiefly U.S. A deep glen or hollow among mountains.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > on or among hills
saddleOE
swirec1050
pocket1745
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corrie1795
cove1805
slot1808
bay1853
punchbowl1855
1745 in New Hampsh. Provinc. & State Papers (1915) 33 293 I also give to my said Son Samuel the Marsh called the Little Pocket & all the flats facing or Lying against the Same.
1860 Harper's Mag. Oct. 604 We brought up in a ‘pocket’ near the Lac de Gros Butte, where we were protected on two sides by water, and on one side by an impassable marsh.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 215 High cypress timber..bordered the little coves (or pockets as they are called by the natives).
1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips v. 128 In many of the pockets or glens in the sides of the hill, the trees grow to some little height.
1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 101 Being accustomed to hunting on the plains, where the game is in pockets, in gullys, river bottoms, or in bluffs of poplar or willows [etc.].
1951 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 18 May ii. 21/1 A wondrous water, lying..in a mountain pocket behind the great Hoover dam.
1989 N. Shapiro tr. I. Raboy Jewish Cowboy xxiii. 243 Right next to the stream grew willow and cottonwood trees and clumps of wild cherry. In North Dakota a place like this was known as a ‘pocket’.
b. Chiefly U.S. A wide pit-like hollow in a canyon or fissure.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > other
slack?a1400
swamp1691
cauldrona1763
hog wallow1829
tomo1859
kettle1866
pocket1869
dolina1882
kettle hole1883
frost hollow1895
impact crater1895
uvala1902
frost pocket1907
sotch1910
pingo1938
lagg1939
tafoni1942
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius ix. 250 Fissures..open sometimes into pockets or cavities of larger area.
1884 J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis ix. 86 The cañon widened into a pleasant little pocket.
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders iii. 26 A little off the trail, at the entrance to a pocket of the cañon, he towered erect to peer down when he heard the noise of the messenger's ascent.
1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 22 July 4 It was feared that the leaking gas, if not burned, could gather in canyon pockets around the landfill, causing odors and posing the danger of an explosion.
2005 Santa Barbara News-Press (Nexis) 19 Mar. 4,000 acres of rolling grasslands, steeper slopes and canyon pockets with bears and mountain lions.
c. = frost pocket n. at frost n. Compounds 4.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > hemmed in by hills
creek1652
pocket1897
1897 L. H. Bailey Princ. Fruit-growing 59 The grower should avoid flat lands which are hemmed in on all sides by elevations, for these ‘pockets’ are nearly always frosty.
1919 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 1024. 5 As both fruits blossom very early in the spring, neither should be planted in low pockets where late spring frosts may kill the flowers.
2000 C. T. Erler Compl. Home Landscaping ii. 49/1 ( (caption) ) Cold air tends to settle into low-lying pockets, creating a frigid microclimate.
d. A local condition of the atmosphere; spec. = air pocket n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air above our heads > deep hollow in
gulf1712
bump1909
air pocket1910
hole in the air1911
pocket1911
1911 G. C. Loening Monoplanes & Biplanes ii. 18 Everywhere in the atmosphere, and especially on windy days, there exist ‘pockets’ of high density and of low density.
1917 Boy's Own Paper Mar. 273/2 Evidently he had dropped into one of those air eddies which were so dangerous to flying men in the early days of aviation. They, in conjunction with ‘pockets’, accounted for the death of not a few pioneers in flight.
1978 H. Kaplan Damascus Cover vii. 60 The plane rolled in a pocket of turbulent air.
1995 A. M. Cvancara Field Man. Amateur Geologist (rev. ed.) v. 50 Many [sand dunes] develop around an obstacle, such as a rock or bush, which creates a wind shadow or pocket of quieter air in which eddies occur.
7.
a. Mining. A fissure or other limited location in which gold or ore may be found; the deposit in such a situation; an isolated accumulation of ore or mineral.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > hollows containing minerals
purse1604
slash1839
pocket1848
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of alluvial gold
pocket1848
poor man's diggings1852
lead1855
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > isolated deposit
nest1715
bunch1815
pocket1848
boulder1861
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > dilated place
belly1747
pocket1848
1848 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (30th Congress, 1st Sess.) IV. No. 41. 451 The sides of the passage worn into deep rounded fissures that our host calls pockets;..in them the richest ores are found.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado I. ix. 67 We found many persons at work..searching for veins and pockets of gold.
1910 Lone Hand (Sydney) Mar. 494 A dip in the seam, or some obstruction..temporarily dammed the stream, which thickened, solidified there, and formed a ‘pocket’.
1957 H. S. Zim & P. R. Shaffer Rocks & Minerals 34 Galena is found in veins, pockets, and replacement deposits in carbonate rocks.
1992 Public Wks. Jan. 49/2 Areas riddled with pockets of pyrite, a highly acidic rock that would be dangerous to trout in the Ocoee River.
b. A cavity in a rock or stratum that has subsequently filled with a deposit such as gravel, sand, or clay.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > cavity or opening
loch1767
vug1818
pipe1839
pocket1850
vogal1855
window1908
fenster1925
1850 Lit. Gaz. 15 June 405/2 The sands which had gathered in the crevices and pockets of the rocks.
1872 G. W. Dasent Three to One III. 251 A great pocket of clay crops out at the edge of the Bagshot sand.
1893 Times 3 June 6/6 The chalk..presents..a precipitous front of white, unbroken except by an occasional ‘pocket’ of red soil from above.
1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xv. 228 Æsars are probably accumulations of pebbles or alluvium in pockets or cavities in glaciers.
1998 O. Rackham Trees & Woodland in Brit. Landscape (rev. ed.) vi. 121 The inverse of woodland ponds are sand-lenses—pockets of sandy material often abruptly different from the surrounding clay.
c. A subterranean cavity filled with water, oil, or gas.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > underground reservoir
cenote1841
standage1842
pocket1852
gnamma hole1893
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa 3 Water..without even a ‘pocket’ to run into for escape or concealment.
1972 N. Calder Restless Earth (1975) v. 91 Pockets where oil can collect.
1999 Pop. Sci. Mar. 57 Where no pipeline is available to capture and transport natural gas, it is vented and flared. Roughnecks call these marooned pockets ‘stranded’ gas.
8.
a. A small area, population, etc., contrasted with or differing from its surroundings in some respect; a local concentration or patch of something; an isolated enclave.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small space or extent > contrasted with surroundings
pocket1926
1873 J. E. Tinne Wonderland of Antipodes 54 If a man hits on a good ‘pocket’ of gum.
1913 Times 25 Oct. 9/3 A small and isolated ‘pocket’ of dissident Protestants, the last few survivors of the Ulster Liberals of the old type.
1926 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 163/1 The car swerved into the campus, that green, summer-deserted pocket of peace in the little, dusty, traffic-riddled village.
1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ii. 53 They do not form definite groups, but occur rather in local pockets where individuals still exhibit characters reminiscent of those remote times.
1978 J. Blackburn Dead Man's Handle iii. 36 A pocket of upper-crust suburbia: detached, Regency-style residences with two-car garages.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 407/1 The black rhinoceros lingers tenuously in widely scattered pockets of East, Central, and South Africa.
b. Military. An area held by troops who are surrounded by opposing forces; the body of troops occupying such an area; esp. in pocket of resistance (also in extended use).
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society > armed hostility > defence > holding out or making stand > [noun] > resisting > area of resistance
pocket1899
1899 Washington Post 18 May 1/1 The enemy has been driven step by step into the pocket where nothing will be left for them but surrender or the mountains.
1916 Times 6 Nov. 8/1 They attacked..on their extreme right towards Le Transloy, and ‘cleared a pocket of Germans’.
1940 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 11 Dec. 4/1 British troops in Egypt now are dealing with ‘pockets of Italian resistance’ around the camps in the Sidi Barrani zone.
1945 Daily Express 12 Apr. 4/8 Full aid to liberated Europe..must wait not only until the German army is beaten, but until pockets of resistance have been wiped out.
1959 Listener 12 Feb. 287/1 Except for provincial pockets of resistance it is now as successful as any architecture is ever likely to be.
1975 G. St. George Proteus Pact (1976) i. 5 Kleist sat on top of an armored personnel carrier and watched the systematic elimination of pockets of resistance.
2005 Washington Post 4 Sept. a20/1 In one of the few pockets of fighting, insurgents fired seven rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. tanks.
9. A bulge in a sail which has not been trimmed well. Cf. pocket v. 4. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > baggy place
pocket1873
1873 J. W. De Forest Wetherel Affair xxiv. 93 The imperfectly lashed sail, blowing out in a bellying pocket, afforded a sufficient hold to the wind.
1899 Daily News 21 Oct. 3/4 The mainsails of both yachts were glaringly faulty. There was a big pocket in the Shamrock's, pinching her to leeward.
10.
a. Horse Racing. A group of horses which obstruct and enclose a competitor. Cf. pocket v. 8.
ΚΠ
1885 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 12 Apr. At once Altamont got into a pocket, and at the quarter commenced running.
1944 Times 19 June 2/5 Happy Landing, who had got into a pocket coming down into the Dip, had got clear and was going the fastest of the four.
2004 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Aug. 21 The most anxious moment of all came when John got into a pocket just before the final turn and Gemini Guest went three lengths clear.
b. American Football and Canadian Football. A shielded area formed by blockers from which a player attempts to pass; the formation itself. Now also Rugby Union: an area behind the scrum in which the fly-half stands, esp. in order to kick safely.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > formations
T-formation1930
umbrella defence1950
pocket1955
shotgun formation1967
O-line1971
wishbone1972
1955 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 17 Nov. 27/6 They played in the standard T. formation, moving back into the pocket protected by bruising linemen.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 July 27/5 He is an accurate passer, either from the pocket or on the roll-out.
1994 Denver Post 18 Dec. b8/2 But especially when I was in there, they (49ers) were just collapsing the whole pocket.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Sport section) 6 The fly-half sits deep in the pocket, the zone Grayson once inhabited until Wayne Smith, his coach at Northampton, shunted him into more offensive, flatter positions.
B. adj. Developed from the attributive and appositive use of the noun.
1.
a. Adapted or intended to be carried in the pocket, as pocket calculator, pocket flask, pocket watch, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun]
clock1559
pocket watch?1576
watch1590
munter1594
tattler1688
loge1699
yack1789
thimble1819
ticker1821
toy1826
super1857
kettle1889
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > bag or pouch worn on person > [adjective] > adapted or intended to be carried in
pocket?1576
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small enough to fit in specific container
pocket?1576
cabinet1696
pocketable1699
pocket-size1820
vest-pocket1823
cabinet-sized1883
suitcase1910
?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. ciij Mallerie hauing aboute him a pocket dag charged, deliuered the same closely to one Warde a Sergeant.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Also a priuie, close, short pocket dag or pistole.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aa4v/2 Out with your bodkin Your pocket dagger, your steletto.
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. I2 The multiplicity of pocket-watches.
1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 153 A pocket-dyal with a magnet needle.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/8 Lost.., a large blue Turkey-Leather Pocket-Case.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 7 I discovered by my Pocket Glass several Islands to the South-East.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 138 It is not very easy to believe, that words have the property of shutting up all at once, like pocket telescopes.
1831 J. W. Woollgar (title) Description and use of the pocket calculator, a modification of the slide rule.
1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 14 Apr. 86/2 I scarcely recollect a single traveller without his pocket-comb.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 45 We..ran by a pocket compass in the hands of Captain Fish.
1885 Sam Scaramouch 12 Dec. 247/2 If you must have a drink, gentlemen, carry your pocket flasks.
1927 S. Ertz Now East, now West xi. 173 Again that keen glance, over her pocket mirror.
1957 Pract. Wireless 33 534/2 Messrs. Cossar announce a neat printed circuit transistor pocket radio.
1978 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 8/6 Semiconductors..are used in pocket calculators, electronic watches, mini-computers, and many other modern devices.
2001 Art Room Catal. Autumn 62/3 Each glossy cardboard gift bag contains a coordinated set of a pocket memo pad, a miniature badge mirror and four cards with envelopes.
b. figurative and in extended use: miniature, small-scale; tiny.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small of its kind
demi1418
young1550
minikin1566
dwarf-like1582
diminutive1602
minitive?1602
diminute1611
pocket1621
Lilliputian1726
duodecimo1780
toy1821
minified1841
junior1860
toy-sized1861
Lilliput1867
toyish1871
mini1963
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 508 Two poore Breuiarists, with our small pocket-learning.
1803 J. Robison Let. 20 Dec. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 383 I have got some money..to encrease my Apparatus with some models of Machines, and I have a great inclination to have one of your pocket Steam Engine.
1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 14 May in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 128 My dear little pocket Prince de Beauvoau for me!—worth all the Russian bears and giants put together.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iii. 48 A pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
1936 Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 8/3 No decisive victory in the Austrian pocket dictators' duel is possible without profound repercussions.
1977 Time 8 Aug. 30/1 Charles [Prince, of Luxembourg] was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality.
2003 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 24 Nov. Although Lees-Milne relished writing in Beckford's library his wife was miserable with only a pocket garden.
c. spec. Designating a small book which is designed to be carried in a pocket, as pocket edition (also figurative). Hence in the titles of books of this size.
ΚΠ
1640 E. Verney Let. in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) I. vii. 174 I pray be pleased to send mee a pocket prayer-book.
1654 N. Church (title) Cheap riches: or a pocket-companion.
1683 T. Gallen (title) A Compleat Pocket Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1683.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5336/3 A neat Pocket Edition of the Odes..of Horace.
1740 J. Williamson (title) The British angler, or a pocket-companion for gentlemen-fishers.
1817 J. Bunting Speech 30 Oct. in T. P. Bunting Life J. Bunting (1887) II. xv. 129 This celebrated apothegm is, I fear,..an apology for covetousness or want of zeal—‘a mere pocket edition of selfishness’.
1832 Athenæum No. 241. 375 Published in a neat pocket volume, cloth boards.
1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. II. xiv. 235 I would buy a pocket-dictionary at one of the ports.
1905 G. Meredith Let. 7 May (1970) III. 1522 A pocket Italian-English phrase-book should be taken.
1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 71/1 Aldus used it [sc. italic type] for the pocket editions of classical authors which he printed in Venice around the year 1500.
2005 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 26 Feb. d1 The 30-page pocket reference guide is not intended to take the place of the 512-page other guide.
d. Of a warship: armoured and equipped as the class named, but smaller in size. Chiefly in pocket battleship. Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > other types of war vessel
bastard1578
pre-Dreadnought1908
pocket1929
hunter-killer1948
1929 Times 14 Feb. 10/3 No doubt the Admiralty is considering the importance of the problem presented by the projected German ‘pocket battleship’.
1931 Nevada State Jrnl. 17 Oct. 1/1 A resolution asking the [German] government to suspent [sic] work on the construction of ‘pocket cruisers’ and to use the money thus saved to feed the children of the poor.
1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 14 May 89 Some of the latest and fastest motor launches..are known as ‘pocket destroyers’.
1951 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 632/1 Aided by George (now Sir George) Binney, three ‘pocket freighters’ were rapidly built in British shipyards.
1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies ii. 40 We heard the sound of heavy guns: a raider or a pocket battleship, we thought.
2001 Atlantic Monthly (Nexis) 1 June 37 Cirrus would have loved to race right into the development of an inexpensive ‘pocket jet’, but it didn't have the capital.
2. Arising from financial considerations, having reference to money. Cf. sense A. 4b. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] > having regard to money
pecuniary1606
pocket?1701
?1701 Observ. Our Trade 84 In this case Pocket Arguments, and Observations from the practical part, ought to be admitted: for gain is the Mother of Trade, and will rule and govern in all its Steps.
1705 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 156 The personal interest and pocket gain of one Single person.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 160 All persons are most open to pocket arguments, and here came one.
1896 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 8 July 2/1 They thought..that they would have the war tax to pay. The pocket argument is irresistible always.
1918 Times 1 Oct. 9/2 These are pocket considerations which will have their proper weight, even though..it is to the patriotism of the community that the financial appeal is first and foremost made.
1998 National Business Rev. (Nexis) 5 Nov. Insolvency litigation is driven to a large degree by ‘deep pocket’ considerations.
†3. Private, secret. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective]
sundereOE
privyc1300
close1393
private1472
soleinc1475
secret1528
retired1595
implicit1610
cabinet1611
underhanda1616
closet1639
umbratile1640
closeteda1649
curtain1661
recluse1673
snug1710
pocket1804
entre nous1806
underground1820
sub rosa1824
esoterical1850
esoteric1876
1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 347 Being, by a secret or pocket deed, to be defeated of the incumbrance he has advanced his money for.

Phrases

P1.
a. in a person's pocket: under a person's control or influence; (of an outcome, etc.) assured, guaranteed (cf. in the bag at bag n. 18f).
ΚΠ
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. sig. G4v Who shall know it? But hee, that cannot speake it; and this fellow, Whose lippes are i' my pocket . View more context for this quotation
1813 R. Wilson Diary 16 Feb. (1861) I. 283 I have them, Madame, always in my pocket; I can do with them as I will.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 55 He was sitting with the family seat in his pocket.
1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 12 So long as Flabby Anne kept up her payments, he could just about get along. He had the La Bottes..in his pocket.
1979 E. Koch Good Night Little Spy ix. 82 They've [sc. the Soviets] got him exactly where they want him: in their pocket.
2001 New Internationalist Nov. 5/3 The Americans are seen to be firmly in the pocket of the Israelis and supremely indifferent to the plight of the Palestinians.
b. to put (also keep) in one's pocket: to take or keep to oneself; to conceal, suppress.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep quiet about [phrase]
to keep or hold (a matter) counsel (later in counsela1400
to keep secret1399
to keep (something) dark1532
to draw a veil over1582
not to tell one's shirt1586
to keep one's (own) counsel1604
to put (also keep) in one's pocketa1616
to name no names1692
to make a secret of1738
to keep (‥) snug1778
to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1825
to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867
to hold back1956
to sweep (also brush, kick, etc.) (something) under the rug1956
to get it off one's chest1961
to sweep (or push) (something) under the carpet1963
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 29 Du. O you giue me ill counsell. Clo. Put your grace in your pocket sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood obey it. View more context for this quotation
1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris vi. sig. F4v You had as good have put your tongue in your pocket.
1666 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 351 If it war to preserve hir honour, hee did well; bot when it was lost hee shuld heve keept his horns in his poket.
1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape iv. i. 47 He that will keep his Horns in his Pocket, must keep his Wife in his Bosom.
1840–1 T. Moore Poet. Wks. VIII. 276 This comes of a man..Keeping his character in his pocket.
1863 L. M. Alcott Hosp. Sketches (1957) ii. 41 I put my bashfulness in my pocket, and plunged into a long conversation on the war, the weather, music, Carlyle, skating, [etc.].
1915 C. S. Churchill Let. 30 Dec. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) vii. 142 You know I'm not good at pretending, but I am going to put my pride in my pocket and reconnoitre Downing Street.
1994 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 15 July 62 [He] kept his feelings in his pocket long enough to get a Master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.
c. U.S. out of pocket: out of reach, absent, unavailable.
ΚΠ
1908 ‘O. Henry’ Buried Treasure in Ainslee's July 69/2 Just now she is out of pocket. And I shall find her as soon as I can.
1946 Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 12 May i. 7/1 [They] told citizens here that somebody was ‘out of pocket’ in Bowie and Miller counties the nights of the killings, and urged them to recall whether anyone they knew was missing on those dates.
1973 J. Peterson Sicilian Slaughter 53 Her hands shook as she dialed. But her connection was out of pocket.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 20 Apr. 1 a/1 If you..have ever been sick and the only doctor is out of pocket for the weekend, then you know we need more doctors.
2002 A. Phillips Prague iii. viii. 229 Five-day weekend for me, Charlie, starting in eighteen minutes. I'll be out of pocket until Tuesday.
P2.
a. out of pocket: out of funds; worse off financially (by some transaction).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
1679 R. L'Estrange Hist. Plot 53 He was Seven hundred pounds out of pocket.
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 11 But agad I'm a little out of pocket at present.
1737 J. Logan Let. 25 July in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 319 The proprietors..complain they are yet out of pocket by it.
1787 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 212 If she goes soon he will still be out of pocket by the Appointment.
1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) Ded. 6 I shall be pounds out of pocket by my conscientious refusal.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. iv. 74 I am out of pocket for my expenses.
1919 Observer 3 Aug. 7/6 A miner would rather be ten shillings out of pocket by not doing a day's work than earn ten shillings and pay 2/4d. of it as income tax.
2002 Which? Feb. 5/2 Out of pocket and upset, Caroline complained to Corgi, expecting it to take action.
b. in pocket: having money available; in possession of funds; having (a specified amount of) money left over or to profit. Cf. to be low in pocket at low adj. 18b.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase]
in pocket1751
in cash1753
cash1940
society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under control > under the personal control of
in pocket1751
the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person > in attendance
at a person's handa1382
at an inch1567
at inches1567
at hand unto1613
in pocket1751
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adverb] > profitably > having so much to profit
in pocket1751
out of the red1907
in the clear1928
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 154 We might indeed have starved..if Bulkeley had not happened to be somewhat in Pocket.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. ii. 343 At the end of their peregrination, they are above an hundred crowns in pocket.
1800 R. Heber Let. 13 Oct. in Heber Lett. (1950) iv. 126 He was in pocket by our masking as Cholmondeley who was there gave him a guinea.
1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xxx. 115 If you'd a chaise of your own..you'd be money in pocket.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 24 Fred, when he had parted with his new horse for at least eighty pounds, would be fify-five pounds in pocket by the transaction.
1908 Washington Post 3 Aug. I will pay $3,000 for a propeller that will do more than this one. And I shall then still be a thousand dollars in pocket.
1963 L. Meynell Virgin Luck vi. 127 I was in pocket now. So I decided to go a bust and back a number.
1996 Independent 24 June i. 8/5 Another reason Mankash is ‘in pocket’, he says, is that he doesn't drink much.
c. to put one's hand in (also into) one's pocket: to (seek to) provide money from one's own resources.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > spend one's own money
to spend upon the stock1617
to put one's hand in (also into) one's pocket1857
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. Introd. p. xxii There are other ways of being generous, besides putting your hand in your pocket.
1878 H. James Europeans I. iv. 147 Robert Acton would put his hand into his pocket every day in the week if that rattle-pated little sister of his should bid him.
1948 E. Waugh Loved One 28 We may have to put our hands in our pockets—I don't suppose old Frank has left much.
1974 B. Bainbridge Bottle Factory Outing (1975) vii. 125 They had tea paid for by Vittorio, who seemed quite ready to put his hand in his pocket.
1997 Accountancy Apr. 28/4 Under 10% of..members support the cause. Isn't it about time you put your hand in your pocket?
P3. to line one's pockets: to accumulate wealth, esp. illicitly or at the expense of others.
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1704 in G. Villiers Misc. Wks. 92 For who would not propose a Trip to Spain, That has within his Prospect double Gain, To line his Pockets and to save his Skin.
1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xii. 132 You see how cutely I planned out this show business of Boaz which has lined our pockets so handsomely.
1895 Harper's Mag. Feb. 340/2 The eager temper of our citizens thus at once to line their pockets and to serve their King is shown.
1948 A. J. Hanna & K. A. Hanna Lake Okeechobee xi. 158 Transactions he had made in North Carolina had served to line his pockets while he was still an employee of the United States.
1996 J. McCormick & S. Fisher-Hoch Level 4 xvii. 166 Generally, they served less than a year, which was enough time for them to line their pockets before they were sacked and had to go back to parliament.
P4.
a. to sit in a person's pocket: to be close to or intimate with a person. Now rare.
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1812 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 42 Lord Gower..seemed charmed with her, sat in her pocket all the evening, both in a titter.
1881 W. H. Mallock Romance 19th Cent. iv. iii He sits in her pocket every evening.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1910) 1661 In one's pocket,..very close to one; as, to sit in one's pocket.
b. to live in each other's pockets and variants: to live in excessively close proximity or interdependence. Similarly in and out of each other's pockets.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together
usec1384
hive1600
cohabit1601
cohabitate1624
co-inhabit1624
roof1636
to move in1850
to live in each other's pockets1934
shack1935
to live together1961
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] > in excessively close proximity
to live in each other's pockets1934
1934 Frederick (Maryland) Post 29 June 10/4 I'll be back in six months or so and we'll both be better pleased if we're not living in one another's pockets.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon vi. 158 We lived..in one another's pockets, so why should there be the privilege of privacy and seclusion for one and not for the other?
1978 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Feb. 8/2 Architects and painters do not live in each other's pockets in England today.
1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 2.26 Do you think they are friends..Must be if they're in and out of each other's pockets.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 4 Aug. 26 Barcelona has not been a claustrophobic fortnight living in the pockets of the team-mates around him but an exercise in self-sufficiency.
2001 Jakarta Post (Nexis) 25 May They acknowledged that living in and out of each other's pockets sometimes takes its toll in arguments.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the noun. See also pocket billiards n., pocketbook n., pocket borough n., pocket handkerchief n., pocket hole n., pocket knife n., pocket money n., pocket pistol n., pocket veto n.
pocket allowance n. now rare = pocket money n.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > spending- or pocket-money
spending-silver1377
dispense1382
dispending1487
spending-money1598
pocket money1625
pin money1702
pocket allowance1726
Saturday pennya1854
spense1886
spend1970
1726 New Guide to London (ed. 2) 70/1 80 old Gentlemen..whom the Founder has..provided a handsom weekly Pocket-Allowance for their odd Expences.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 143 Her board and pocket allowance, and the continual presents in money, which passed to her, through her mother's hands. View more context for this quotation
1969 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 13 Oct. 9/2 The trainees will receive free board and lodging and a small pocket allowance.
2005 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. Gurus are expected to meet chelas' needs for food, clothing, and pocket allowance.
pocket beach n. Physical Geography a small narrow beach between two headlands or in a similar sheltered position.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore > spec
shingle1513
hard1728
shell beach1835
private beach1859
storm-beach1882
pocket beach1893
1893 N. S. Shaler in 13th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1891–2: Pt. 2 141 Where..there are islands or shoals lying on either side of a considerable reentrant, a curious action arises, which leads to the formation of what we may term ‘pocket beaches’.
1932 W. H. Emmons et al. Geology ix. 254 On rocky coasts beaches of boulders and cobblestones commonly form at the heads of indentations... These pocket beaches..are found along the coast of California.
1993 Canad. Geographic Mar. 70 (caption) ‘Pocket’ beaches are formed in coves along rocky or steep coasts, where powerful breakers leave more sediment than they carry away.
pocket bread n. North American and Australian = pitta n.2
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > other types of bread
sergeant-loafa1348
clear-matin1362
bean-breadc1380
French bread1420
pease-breada1425
bran-breadc1425
grey breadc1430
angels' breadc1440
dough bread?a1500
baker's bread?1550
acorn bread1571
cart-bread1574
chapter-bread1600
diet-bread1617
ember-bread1681
buff coat1688
bust-coat1706
Picentine bread1712
chestnut-bread1814
naan1828
gluten-bread1846
to-bread1854
batch-bread1862
injera1868
coffee cake1879
pan dulce1882
quick bread1882
sour bread1884
Tommy1895
focaccia1905
hard-dough bread1911
hush puppy1918
potica1927
spoon bread1932
bake1933
pitta1936
hard-dough1966
pain de campagne1970
pocket bread1973
ciabatta1985
pain au levain1985
levain1991
1973 Los Angeles Times 5 Apr. vi. 24/1 I'd love to share a recipe for the small round hollow bread called peta, sometimes referred to as ‘pocket bread’.
2001 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 30 Dec. 31 One man's hippie mecca is another's capitalist heaven. Where else but Woodford would a pocket bread cost $7–10?
pocket-burner n. slang †(a) humorous [in allusion to to burn a hole in one's pocket at burn v.1 16] , a coin (obsolete); (b) something very expensive or costly.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a coin
minteOE
minteOE
crossc1330
coinc1386
cross and (or) pilea1393
penny1394
croucha1420
penny1427
piece1472
metal1485
piecec1540
stamp1594
quinyie1596
cross and pilea1625
numm1694
ducat1794
bean1811
dog1811
chinker1834
rock1837
pocket-burner1848
spondulicks1857
scale1872
chip1879
ridge1935
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. iv. 173 One that..never met you after a hailstorm without lightening himself of a few pocket-burners.
2001 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 25 Nov. 67 Ottobello [sc. a racehorse], given every chance, continues to be a pocket-burner.
pocket change n. = loose change at loose adj. 1a.
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1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Exped. McCulloch's Texas Rangers 43 Most of us had a little pocket-change, and we drove a lively trade with the Mexicans.
1950 Nevada State Jrnl. 12 Sept. 14/1 He had only pocket change with him when arrested.
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead i. 17 His brothers tried to help, but he refused more than an occasional meal and pocket change now and again.
† pocket-cloth n. Obsolete a pocket handkerchief.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 3 Cannot I wipe mine Eyes with the fair Pocket-Cloath..?
† pocket-cutter n. Obsolete a thief who steals by cutting victims' pockets.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1885 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 5 June 2/3 Deck hands on the steamer..were being robbed by pocket-cutters among the roustabouts.
pocket door n. chiefly North American a folding door which is concealed in a recess when opened.
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1955 N.Y. Times 15 May viii. 3 (advt.) Disappearing, recessed pocket doors.
1977 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 3 Apr. At one end of the room is a doorway, with sliding pocket doors which appear and disappear in the Victorian magic manner, leading to the library.
2001 National Post (Canada) 26 May e15/1 The five-bedroom, three-bathroom home has a living room with pocket doors, a coved ceiling and 12-inch baseboards.
pocket expenses n. now rare out-of-pocket expenses.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > small personal
pocket expenses1696
menus plaisirs1697
1696 P. Ayres Revengeful Mistress 39 She..entreated him to accept of a small Recruit for his Pocket Expences.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxvii. 277 The purse..to defray her pocket expenses in his absence.
1813 F. Gray Diary 15 Jan. in Mrs. E. Gray Papers & Diaries York Family (1927) xi. 202 Her allowance for clothes and pocket expenses was very sufficient.
1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 116 If you keep the pocket expenses down to twelve and six.
2004 Miami Herald (Nexis) 27 June e1 Total costs include tuition, fees, room and board, pocket expenses, books and transportation.
pocket-filled adj. rare having full pockets, rich.
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the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective]
richeOE
eadyOE
richfulc1300
plenteousc1350
wealthyc1380
wealthfula1400
wlouȝa1400
wellc1405
biga1425
goldedc1450
substantious1490
able1516
opulent?1518
substantive1543
strong1581
fat1611
juicy1627
fortuned1632
affluent1652
rhinocerical1688
rough1721
rowthy1792
golden1797
strong-handed1817
well-to-do1831
wealth-encumbered1844
nabobish1857
rhinoceral1860
ingoted1864
tinny1871
pocket-filled1886
oofy1896
nawabi1955
brewstered2001
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 237 Let the empty titles and empty pockets marry the title-mad and pocket-filled Jewesses.
1994 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 16 Sept. 10 It has pushed the construction of these projects in a bid to attract pocket-filled foreign investors.
pocket-fish n. †(a) Scottish a cuttlefish (obsolete); (b) English regional an anglerfish.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Lophiiformes (anglers) > [noun] > family Lophiidae > lophius piscatorius (angler)
frogfish1598
frog1601
sea-fisher1601
sea-frog1601
friar1603
toad-fish1612
catfish1620
sea-angler1653
devil fish1666
monkfish1666
nass-fish1666
angler1776
pocket-fish1796
kettle-mawa1798
wide-gab1807
anglerfish1854
round robin1880
dragon-
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 375 Sometimes the cuttle fish (sepio soligo [sic] of Linnaeus), and what the Scots fishermen denominate the pocket or hoze fish are caught upon the shore.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 65 It was the curiostest fish I ever see... He was uglier than a ‘Pocket fish’.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 8/1 The angler is known by various names, including Pocket-fish, Sea-devil, Fishing-frog, Toad-fish, Briarbot, and Wide-gab.
pocket flap n. an overlapping piece of material covering (the top of) a pocket.
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1728 W. Betagh Voy. round World i. 31 I have consider'd that your sleeve cuffs and pocket flaps will be first subject to the injuries of time.
1834 Niles' Weekly Reg. 4 Oct. 89/1 Four buttons on each cuff, and four on each pocket flap.
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 176 A crimson scarf with a horseshoe-pin of ‘Brazilian diamonds’, and sleek brown ready-made clothes with ornately curved cuffs and pocket flaps.
1995 Fashions of Times Spring 64/2 (caption) Black two-button wool jacket with satin revers and pocket flaps, $1,200.
pocket gopher n. (a) any of numerous burrowing rodents constituting the American family Geomyidae, having small ears and external cheek pouches; (b) U.S. regional a ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Geomyidae (gopher)
sand rat1781
tuza1787
mungofa1789
salamander1805
gopher1814
pocket gopher1873
1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville iv. 37 She would..explain how the pocket-gophers built their mounds.
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes iv. 59 The animals of the first sub-group are those that spend the anœstrus in solitude... Examples are the jaguar of Central America and the pocket gopher of the United States.
1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 221/2 They call them pocket gophers south of the [Illinois] River and ground squirrels north of the river.
1990 Atlantic Jan. 74/1 Here and there pocket gophers had pushed mounds of black tailings from their burrows onto the trail.
† pocket-hay n. (also pocket-hage) Obsolete a short net used to catch pheasants.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > net
plover net1404
tunnelc1440
setter1526
trammel1530
bird net1533
day net1576
road net1581
sparrow-net1621
shaw-net1648
trammel-net1648
spreadnet1661
pocket-hay1704
bramble-net1706
clap-net1708
tunnel-net1721
funnel-net1774
bow-net1875
flight net1889
house trap1903
pouting-net1905
1704 Dict. Rusticum Pocket-Hages,..certain short Nets wherewith to take Pheasants alive... They are about a Yard long.
?1710 Compl. Eng. & French Vermin-killer 55 Then plant your Pocket Net, otherwise called Pocket Hages, which I thus describe.
1713 J. Kersey New Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Pocket-hays, short Nets to take Pheasants alive.
pocket-hoop n. now historical a woman's corset, consisting of two hoops suspended on either hip from a belt around the waist; cf. pannier n.1 5.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > hoop > type of
pocket-hoop1779
crinolette1870
1779 Epist. Young Lady to Ensign in Guards 11 The evening ball, Where pocket-hoops the only bastions form, Where without danger breast-works he might storm.
1790 R. Tyler Contrast i. i You really think the pocket-hoop unbecoming.
1984 J. Nunn Fashion in Costume 86 For undress occasions..cotton pocket-hoops replaced the large hoops; these were fairly small, separate side hoops..worn on each hip and reaching to just above the knee.
pocket hunter n. a prospector who seeks out gold in pockets (sense A. 7a) (in quot. 1872 in extended use).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector > type of
garimpeiro1812
pocket hunter1872
pocket miner1872
brine-smeller1878
grub-staker1880
sourdough1898
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lx. 438 The hogs are good pocket hunters.
1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 159/1 They [sc. prospectors] include the ‘pocket-hunter’ who disdains to search for gold except in the form of pockets.
2000 R. F. Ewan Land Between 90 Before 1859, the Numu had had only limited interaction with a few pocket hunters—lone prospectors searching for shallow ore-rich crevices in the earth—and early explorers.
pocket judgment n. now rare a recognizance or contract which can be enforced without further proceedings as if it is the judgment of a court.
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1701 R. Gardiner Enchiridion Clericale 143 These are of the Nature of Judgments had upon Suits in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and therefore they are called Pocket-Judgments.
1736 M. Bacon New Abridgm. Law II. 331 The Addition of the King's Seal, which was never required to any Contract at Common Law, was to authenticate and make the Security of a higher Nature than any other then known... Thus it must be presumed from the Force of them, which is equal to Judgments of the Superior Courts, they obtained the Name of Pocket Judgments.
1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) (at cited word) Pocket-judgment, a statute-merchant which was enforceable at any time after non-payment on the day assigned, without further proceedings.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 814/2 Statute merchant, owing to the summary method of enforcing payment, was sometimes known as ‘pocket judgment’.
† pocket-lid n. Obsolete = pocket flap n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket > parts of
pocket hole1590
pocket-lid1750
pocket protector1848
pocket stay1895
1750 Proc. Old Bailey 1749 64/1 I saw the prisoner make several attempts at my brother's pocket, he lifted up his pocket lid and put his hand in.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 May 3/2 There is a new tailor-made jacket called the ‘Cavalier’... It falls down to the hips and has heavy pocket-lids and lappels.
pocket miner n. = pocket hunter n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector > type of
garimpeiro1812
pocket hunter1872
pocket miner1872
brine-smeller1878
grub-staker1880
sourdough1898
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lx. 438 The pocket-miners tell of one nest that yielded $60,000 and two men exhausted it in two weeks, and then sold the ground for $10,000.
1947 R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 278 It has been the custom for ninety years to believe that pocket miners invariably wrest fortune from Jackass Hill.
pocket mining n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > prospecting > types of prospecting for gold, diamonds, or opal
stampede1846
river digging1850
pocket mining1872
potholing1885
sniping1897
Klondiking1900
specking1901
pork-knocking1965
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lx. 436 In that one little corner of California is found a species of mining..called ‘pocket mining’.
1989 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 22 Mar. b12/4 The constant flows on Sawmill Creek allowed for extensive pocket mining and agricultural activity in the region for many years.
pocket mouse n. any of the smaller rodents of the American family Heteromyidae (now sometimes included in Geomyidae), esp. of the genera Perognathus and (more fully spiny pocket mouse) Heteromys, which have external cheek pouches.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Dasyuridae > subfamily Phascogalinae > genus Phascogale (pouched mouse)
Phascogale1841
pouched mouse1853
kangaroo mouse1867
pocket mouse1877
Phascologale1888
1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. xcviii/2 Tuft-tailed Pocket Mouse... Mountain Pocket Mouse... Hispid Pocket Mouse... Honduras Pocket Mouse.
1947 S. Sierran (Los Angeles) Mar. 3/3 This mouse is about one inch longer than the Pocket Mouse, its tail being half its total length.
2001 D. Macdonald New Encycl. Mammals 666/2 The rain forest is nearly bare of heteromyids: only one species, Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse, occurs at most sites.
pocket net n. a net having the form of a pocket or pouch, or one incorporating a pocket or pockets.
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1704 Dict. Rusticum at Calls, Natural and Artificial Take one end of the Pocket Net..and cast it over the bended Stick, so that it may lie thereon.
1867 Times 15 Apr. 10/5 Some of the fishermen had 50 ‘poke’ nets or pocket nets for catching salmon.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 698 Pocket net,..one with a relatively small compartment in which the fish are collected.
1977 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 18 Aug. 9/3 [The fish] swim into the bowl-like crib..and are picked out of the pocket net alongside the crib.
pocket passer n. American Football and Canadian Football a player who passes from the pocket (sense A. 10b).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player
side tackle1809
nose guard1852
rusher1877
goalkicker1879
quarterback1879
runner1880
quarter1883
full back1884
left guard1884
snap-back1887
snapper-back1887
running back1891
tackle1891
defensive end1897
guard1897
interferer1897
receiver1897
defensive back1898
defensive tackle1900
safety man1901
ball carrier1902
defensive lineman1902
homebrew1903
offensive lineman1905
lineman1907
returner1911
signal caller1915
rover1916
interference1920
punt returner1926
pass rusher1928
tailback1930
safety1931
blocker1935
faker1938
scatback1946
linesman1947
flanker1953
platoon player1953
corner-back1955
pulling guard1955
split end1955
return man1957
slot-back1959
strong safety1959
wide receiver1960
line-backer1961
pocket passer1963
tight end1963
run blocker1967
wideout1967
blitzer1968
1963 Time 18 Oct. 94 Myers..is a drop-back ‘pocket’ passer.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Nov. 53/6 If Wade, a pocket passer, is harassed by the Eskimoes' blitzing linebackers, he could throw a number of interceptions.
1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 July d2/3 Noted for the long ball thrown by a pocket passer like Jim Plunkett, they signed free-agent quarterback Jeff Hostetler, a scrambler.
pocket peddler n. U.S. (now historical) a street trader who sells alcoholic liquor from a bottle carried in his or her pocket.
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1891 Chicago Tribune 18 July 4/5 Whether the rum shops were all open for the celebration, or whether the pocket peddlers did the business, is not for us to say.
1929 Lima (Ohio) News 18 Dec. 6/1 The expensive federal and state operatives spend too much time in looking after the home brewer and pocket peddler.
2003 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Dec. c6 Driving liquor use out of respectable saloons into the ‘kitchen bars’ and onto the streets, where ‘pocket peddlers’ did a brisk business.
pocket plum n. Plant Pathology a plum growing hollow, without a stone, as a result of the fungal disease plum pockets.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > diseased plum
pocket plum1899
1899 G. Massee Text-bk. Plant Dis. 85 ‘Pocket-plums’, or ‘Bladder-plums’... The..disease of plum-trees..caused by a minute parasitic fungus.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 560/2 Many of these Taphrineæ are important parasites—e.g. Pocket plums and Witches' Brooms on Birches, &c., are due to their action.
1988 I. M. Smith et al. European Handbk. Plant Dis. 251/1 T[aphrina] pruni Tul. infects the fruits of plum.., which become elongated with pocket-like indentations (bladder or pocket plums).
pocket pool n. North American (a) = pocket billiards n. 1 (b) slang = pocket billiards n. 2 (chiefly in to play pocket pool).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > varieties of game
carambole1775
portobello1777
carambole game1807
go-back game1839
pyramid1850
pin pool1864
shell-out1866
pocket billiards1871
pocket pool1877
snooker('s) pool1889
puff billiards1897
kelly1898
slosh1938
bar billiards1966
1877 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 31 May New billiard table, pin and pocket pool.
c1920 H. N. Cary Sexual Vocab. (typescript) IV. at Masturbation Onanism..playing pocket pool.
1936 S. Kingsley Dead End 42 I got a flock a dames... At'd make yew slobs run off in a dark corner when yuh see dere pichure an play pocket-pool.
1992 Esquire July 54/2 This obscene, drooling old booger is right there playing pocket pool in front of forty thousand sensitive Christians.
1999 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. c4/6 Hand-eye coordination is essential to billiards, snooker or pocket pool.
pocket rat n. U.S. (now rare) a rodent of the family Heteromyidae; esp. a kangaroo rat (genus Dipodomys).
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1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. xcix/1 Ord's Pocket Rat.
1906 F. Stephens California Mammals 150 A singular characteristic of Pocket-Rats and Pocket-Mice is their ability to go without water.
1928 H. E. Anthony Field Bk. N. Amer. Mammals 297 Liomys irroratus texensis... Names.—Texas Spiny Mouse; Texas Spiny Pocket Rat.
pocket rot n. Plant Pathology a fungal infection causing localized decay in the trunks and roots of trees; frequently with distinguishing word denoting the colour of the diseased areas.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees
heart rot1808
white rot1828
sap-rot1838
red rot1847
conk1851
soft rot1886
pine blister1889
silver-leaf1890
leaf shedding1891
pine rust1893
leaf cast1894
partridge-wood1894
larch blister1895
needle-cast1895
sooty mould1901
white pine blister rust1909
larch needle cast1921
coral-spot1923
ink disease1923
pocket rot1926
wood rot1926
Dutch elm disease1927
oak wilt1942
ash dieback1957
1926 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 33 687 As the brown cubical rot produced..is more or less restricted to definite pockets in the wood, it has been called brown-pocket rot.
1956 F. W. Jane Struct. Wood ix. 208 In the pocket rots the areas of decay are confined to pockets.
1991 Mycol. Res. 95 769 The fungus causes a white pocket rot resulting in localized areas of selective delignification in wood of Eucryphia cordifolia.
pocket sheriff n. now historical and rare a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > sheriff or high sheriff > appointed by sole authority of crown
pocket sheriff1740
1740 London Mag. 9 550/2 The Security given by that Statute is entirely evaded, if this Practice of making Pocket Sheriffs is to prevail.
1809 E. Christian Blackstone's Comm. I. ix. 341 (note) When the king appoints a person sheriff, who is not one of the three nominated in the exchequer, he is called a pocket-sheriff. It is probable, that no compulsory instance of the appointment of a pocket-sheriff ever occurred.
1916 Times 1 Mar. 11/3 Mr. Constantine was appointed as an emergency or ‘pocket’ Sheriff.
pocket-size adj. = pocket-sized adj.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > small enough to fit in specific container
pocket?1576
cabinet1696
pocketable1699
pocket-size1820
vest-pocket1823
cabinet-sized1883
suitcase1910
1729 W. Webster Arithmetick in Epitome (ed. 4) Pref. sig. A4v My first design in this Treatise was..to epitomize the Art; and to reduce to a pocket Size, what has sometimes been swell'd to a folio.]
1820 J. Clare Let. 19 Apr. (1985) 53 The poems are pocket size one ‘Walker's Edit’ & the other ‘Cookes’.
1917 E. E. Cummings Let. 5 May (1969) 19 The immemorially delightful sententia of a pocket-size sailor.
1993 Money Apr. 15/3 Rising fears of carjackings and muggings are leading Americans to arm themselves with self-defense sprays or pocket-size alarms.
pocket-sized adj. of a size suitable for carrying in a person's pocket; also figurative and in extended use.
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1797 R. Southey Let. 7 July (1965) I. 134 That awkward folio now makes a few pocket-sized pages.
1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxiii. 253 Our Jan..was a pocket-sized Stalin.
1997 Home Flair July 60 This pocket-sized kitchen was stuck in a Seventies time-warp, so I resolved to attack it using the material beloved of Blue Peter presenters—sticky back plastic.
pocket stay n. a piece of interfacing sewn to the inner side of a pocket in order to reinforce it.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > pocket > parts of
pocket hole1590
pocket-lid1750
pocket protector1848
pocket stay1895
1895 Chicago Tribune 24 Oct. 13/7 (advt.) We suggest that you compare closely the edges, the velvet collars, the buttons and button-holes, the pockets and pocket stays, [etc.].
1925 Bee (Danville, Va.) 26 June 12/5 (advt.) $1.50 Overalls. The famous Pinnacle Brand, good heavy blue denim, reinforced pocket stays of linen thread.
1991 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 11 Dec. (Style section) 26 Only natural fibers are used, even for linings and trim such as linen pocket stays.
pocket T n. (also pocket tee) = pocket T-shirt n.
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1970 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 18 July 8 (advt.) Men's pocket tees. Sunday Only!
1999 J. Lethem Motherless Brooklyn 40 He was twenty-five that summer, gangly except for a tiny potbelly in his pocket-T.
† pocket-tortoise n. Obsolete a pocket tortoiseshell comb.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > comb
comba700
pocket-tortoise1687
whisk-comb1688
dressing comb1782
tail comb1782
rake-comb1790
reding comb1795
fine-tooth comb1852
hackle1903
rat-tail comb1937
rake1966
Afro pick1971
pick1972
detangler1984
1687 C. Sedley Bellamira Prol., in Wks. (1722) II. 87 Nor Perruque comb'd, nor Pocket-Tortoise stirr'd.
pocket T-shirt n. a T-shirt with a patch breast pocket.
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1953 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 4 June 9 (advt.) Men's pocket T-shirts... One pocket style in white or colors.
2000 R. C. Maddock Motigraphics xii. 192 They had a problem with younger tellers who came to work on Friday in jeans and pocket t-shirts.
pocket valley n. chiefly Physical Geography a steep-sided, usually flat-floored valley at the head of which a stream emerges at the foot of a steep slope.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > other types
brem valayc1400
glack1535
grain1542
by-slade1635
by-vale1686
water gap1756
hanging valley1900
through valley1901
palm bottom1902
wadi1902
pocket valley1904
1904 S. E. White Mountains xxi. 274 We found ourselves in a pocket valley entirely surrounded by mountain ranges.
1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xxii. 569 Pocket valleys, with vertical head and side walls and a nearly flat floor, are..opened up.
1980 R. Rhodes Last Safari ii. viii. 141 His people had eked out a living in pocket valleys high in the mountains.
C2. Compounds of the adjective.
pocket clock n. now chiefly historical a small timepiece, originally one with a spring-driven movement (being the first type of portable timepiece invented); a pocket watch.
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a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 144 As small pocket-clocks, whose every wheele Doth each mismotion and distemper feele.
1791 J. Thomson Charles & Allectum 11 She then pointed at a watch, or pocket clock,..which had been made me a present of, a great many years ago, by a relation.
1896 Massillion (Ohio) Independent 12 Nov. The first English watches had weights and were used as pocket clocks.
1948 Sci. Monthly Mar. 206/1 It was not until the sixteenth century that watches, or ‘pocket clocks’, first came into existence.
2000 Parent Care Advisor (Nexis) 6 Oct. For users who may be rattled by an audible alarm, vibrating wristwatches or pocket clocks offer a quiet reminder of appointments.
pocket pager n. = pager n.2
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society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager
pager1954
radio pager1954
pocket pager1955
bleeper1964
pageboy1973
bleep1982
1955 N.Y. Times 5 May 50 (advt.) A tiny electronic pocket pager is supplied—no charge—with Aircall Paging Service.
1977 Times 2 May 49/1 Customers can either rent the pocket pagers..or buy them outright.
1994 Denver Post 6 Feb. b1/4 On the way out of the courtroom, the boy adjusts his pocket pager.
pocket paging n. paging by means of a pocket pager.
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society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun]
paging1929
pocket paging1958
1958 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard 9 Sept. General Electric is currently field-testing a one-way pocket paging receiver for police use.
1960 Times 9 Nov. 16/6 On telephone working alone, Pocket Paging reduces ‘call-backs’.
1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 18 July iv. 6/1 NEC America, a manufacturer of computers and pocket paging devices.
pocket park n. Town Planning a very small park or area of greenery in an otherwise urban area.
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1937 Monessen (Pa.) Daily Independent 9 July 10/1 The second ‘pocket park’ being built in the neighborhood of Minneapolis by NYA workers has been plotted and landscaping is to start soon.
2003 Observer (Nexis) 6 Apr. 5 We talk readily about an extra 200,000 homes in the Thames Gateway, but do we ever discuss the implications in terms of at least 100 new neighbourhood parks, 5,000 new pocket parks and 5,000 children's play areas?
pocket pet n. a pet small enough to be kept in a pocket by its owner.
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1912 Washington Post 11 Feb. 4/6 As a crowd of guests gathered, Powers exhibited his pocket pet [sc. a mouse] and detailed its history.
1940 Sci. Monthly Nov. 483/1 A tiny squirrel-like dormouse brought to us tied to a short string adapted itself immediately to being a pocket pet.
1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 7 May c14/6 Wear a sweatshirt with a zippered pocket specifically designed for pocket pets... Sugar gliders, African hedgehogs and European ferrets fit nicely.
pocket rocket n. colloquial (originally Canadian) (a nickname for) a small person regarded as very fast or energetic (originally a nickname given to the Canadian ice hockey player Henri Richard (b. 1936)); (also) a small but very fast or powerful vehicle.
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1952 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 8 Dec. 7/3 It's the Pocket Rocket, 16-year-old brother of Maurice, and he bids fair to become as famous as his brother.
1989 Car & Driver Sept. 32/2 These pocket rockets are usually based on front-drive, hatchback platforms and are stuffed with powerful engines.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 17 Apr. 29/1 Now, having sailed this well-mannered pocket rocket, it's clear that, in this case, first impressions were wrong.
2004 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 8 May 35 The committee report gave Ms Maywald—dubbed ‘the pocket rocket’—just the excuse she needed to launch what is really a de facto campaign for the federal seat.
pocket Venus n. a small and beautiful woman; also in extended use.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman > small beautiful woman
venerilla1628
pocket Venus1767
1767 Hist. Mr. Byron & Miss Greville I. ii. 159 She was, in figure, a complete little beauty, a pocket Venus.
1869 S. R. Hole Bk. Roses viii. 125 The lovely little Banksian Rose..this pocket, or rather button-hole, Venus.
1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City ii. xxvii. 98 Nancy was dark and petite, perfectly formed—the proverbial pocket venus.

Derivatives

ˈpocket-like adj. resembling a pocket.
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1880 Gentleman's Mag. 246 48 Nose, eyes, and ears..arise as pocket-like ingrowths from the epiblast or outer layer of the body.
1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xvi. 455 The semilunar valves are three pocket-like flaps, similar to those of the pulmonary artery.
2000 Miami Herald (Nexis) 3 Nov. 3 b She became trapped in a large, pocketlike section of the underwater fence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pocketv.

Brit. /ˈpɒkɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑkət/
Forms: 1500s poket, 1500s–1700s pockette, 1500s– pocket, 1600s–1800s pockett.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pocket n.
Etymology: < pocket n.
In early use, frequently with up adv.1
I. Physical uses.
1.
a. transitive. To put into one's pocket; (sometimes) spec. to keep (money) rather than spending it. Also figurative.In quot. 1588 the exact sense is unclear.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into a pocket, purse, or pouch
pursea1400
imbursec1530
poucha1566
pocket1588
impouch1611
budget1618
impocket1728
fob1818
trouser1865
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. A3 Let me rather openly pocket vp the Asse at Diogenes hand: then wantonlye set out such impious instances of intollerable poetrie.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe 4 The goodly frame of this Common-Weale shall fall, and Banck-rouptes and Atheists pocket uppe the peeces.
1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East i. ii. sig. B4 Petitions not sweetened With golde,..if receau'd, are pocketted, not read.
1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times vi. 141 He pocketed the Paper, among other Petitions, as unconcerned therein.
1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer iii. xxxv. 452 Whatsoever was spared out of the old House-keeping, should not be pocketed up, but laid out and spent in plain Meats for the Relief of poor People.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. ii. 5 I stopt short, and, pocketting my ducats in a great hurry, took out some rials.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxiv. 257 Mr. Grummer pocketed his staff, and looked at Mr. Dubbley; Mr. Dubbley pocketed his staff and looked at the division.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. ii. 38 He shut up and pocketed his sermon, and followed his flock.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 219 Our friendly hoveller pocketed his five pounds and departed.
1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 125 She smiled, pocketing her shilling.
1974 J. Gardner Nickel Mountain vi. iii. 230 She would merely pocket whatever you gave her..up to and including a twenty-dollar bill.
2002 S. Waters Fingersmith xiii. 409 She says this, locking the door at her back, pocketing the key, then crossing the kitchen.
b. transitive. To take possession of for one's own, to appropriate, esp. dishonestly.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate
ownOE
rimec1275
takec1300
appropre1366
to keep, take to or for one's own storec1385
to get awayc1480
proper1496
apprehenda1522
impropry1526
impropriate1567
carve1578
forestall1581
appropriate1583
propriate1587
pocket1597
impatronize1611
propertya1616
asself1632
appropriatea1634
swallow1637
to swallow up1654
sink1699
poucha1774
spheterize1779
sack1807
fob1818
to look back to1822
mop1861
annex1865
1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe sig. G3v Some of thyne owne faction, enuying thy proficiencie and honour to which thou aspirest, hath pocketted thy Grace.
1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices ii. 41 Pocketing and pursing up..the fruits of other mens labours.
1667 R. Flecknoe Damoiselles a la Mode iv. i. 79 They pocketed up more sweet-meats and banqueting stuff then twenty Gossips at a Christning.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 15 Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown; he pockets the Simony, and Inducts me into the best Pue in the Church.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxix. 206 She ordered every gown and trinket to be sold, and pocketed the money.
1786 T. Jefferson Corr. (1829) II. 11 They [sc. the English] say, they will pocket our carrying trade as well as their own.
1800 Lady A. Barnard Let. 12 Nov. in D. Fairbridge Lady Anne Barnard (1924) 237 The female Blake pockets all she can get, and has such a hoard now of presents as I think she must make a Vendutie of to realize.
1879 J. C. Cox Notes on Churches of Derbyshire IV. 77 These sums were pocketed by Edward VI, or rather by his advisers.
1898 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 99 The object of Sweden being..to realise her long-cherished hopes by quietly ‘pocketing’ Norway.
1928 W. Deeping Old Pybus 10 Mr. Conrad Pybus appeared..rather with the air of a man who had pocketed some of the table silver and was determined that no one should know it.
1967 A. Djoleto Strange Man i. 10 He had pocketed two hundred pounds in a day through overpricing.
1994 C. McWilliam Debatable Land (1995) vi. 143 I was a midnight muncher. Shoplifted Mojos and Tunnock's Snowballs I'd pocketed and that had burst so you had to suck them off the cellophane.
†c. transitive. To refrain from publishing (a report, letter, etc.). Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > keep concealed [verb (transitive)] > refrain or prevent from publishing
suppress1533
stifle1577
pocketa1616
censorize1860
censor1882
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 72 Ant. If but one of his pockets could speake, would it not say he lyes? Seb. I, or very falsely pocket vp his report. View more context for this quotation
1636 J. Trussell Contin. Coll. Hist. Eng. 16 The Duke would not have pocketted up such dangerous reports.
d. transitive. U.S. Politics. = pocket-veto v.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > veto > legislative or political measures > indirectly
pocket1838
pocket-veto1887
1838 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 24 July The absurd opinion of Mr Butler, given as a foundation or justification for Gen. Jackson to pocket the bill repealing the Treasury circular.
1848 Congress. Globe 24 Jan. 225/1 This House saw a President of the United States very coolly pocket a bill.
1907 P. S. Reinsch Amer. Legislatures & Legislative Methods (1920) viii. 261 A common practice is for the chairman to pocket the bill, delaying to report it to the House till too late to pass it.
2003 Des Moines (Iowa) Register (Nexis) 22 Nov. 16 a Congress passes a bill through both houses, the president chooses to sign, veto or pocket the bill.
2. transitive. To confine, enclose, or shut up as in a pocket. Frequently in passive.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)]
beclosec1000
setc1100
steekc1175
prison?c1225
adightc1275
imprison1297
laya1325
keepc1330
presentc1380
locka1400
throwc1422
commise1480
clapc1530
shop1548
to lay up1565
incarcerate1575
embar1590
immure1598
hole1608
trunk1608
to keep (a person) darka1616
carceir1630
enjaila1631
pocket1631
bridewell1733
bastille1745
cage1805
quod1819
bag1824
carcerate1839
to send down1840
jug1841
slough1848
to send up1852
to put away1859
warehouse1881
roundhouse1889
smug1896
to bang up1950
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure
casea1525
to case up1566
chamber1568
bag1570
embower1580
cistern1587
bower1599
casket1603
entemple1603
immould1610
incavern1611
incave1615
chest1616
enchest1632
intrunk1633
labyrinth1637
caverna1640
cabinetc1642
ark1644
to box in1745
lantern1789
cauldron1791
cave1816
pocket1833
castle1871
1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides iv. vi. sig. I2 This is that pocketted vp thy grandsire in his wide intrailes.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. ii. 56 With intent to sell the publick Safety, And pocket up his Prince.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1274 Being cooled here for a day or more, or according to convenience, the hops are bagged, or pocketed.
1877 A. Winchell Reconcil. Sci. & Relig. (1881) v. 100 It has been assumed that energy may be pocketed in portions of matter, to be let loose on certain occasions.
1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 753 The petty port of Guaymas, pocketed on the California Gulf.
1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far i. iii. 29 Though pocketed—the sea lay behind them to the north and west, and Canadians and British were pressing in from the south and east—they nevertheless controlled most of the southern bank of the estuary.
1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) iv. 276 As they rode it [sc. the fire] receded to a faint glow pocketed in the otherwise dark of the desert night.
3. transitive. Billiards, Snooker, and Pool. = pot v.4 7.In quot. 1756, used reflexively.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (transitive)] > play (the ball) in specific way
hazard1674
string1680
miss1746
pocket1756
hole1803
spot1844
nurse1850
draw1860
pot1860
hold1869
dribble1873
fluke1881
scratch1909
1756 Connoisseur No. 129. 776 They practice all the arts of sharping to cheat themselves..they will load the dice in my favour..pocket themselves on purpose at Billiards.
1779 Duchess of Devonshire Sylph II. xxxix. 97 I'll bet you five hundred..that I pocket your ball in five minutes.
1782 Ann. Reg. 1780 Characters 16/1 It was absolutely necessary to make it rebound from two different parts of the cushion before it could pocket the other.
1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 713 A white winning hazard is made when you play at the white ball and pocket it..A red winning hazard is when you pocket the red.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 481 After being pocketed or forced off the table, the red ball must be spotted on the top spot.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 938/2 If it is pocketed, the player scores one and is at liberty to play on any of the coloured balls.
1991 Sports Illustr. 24 June 88/2 Pepin..pocketed the 8 ball on the break for a victory in the title game.
†4. intransitive. To form pockets or pocket-like folds. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > become corrugated [verb (intransitive)] > become wrinkled
rivelOE
snurpc1300
runklea1425
crumple?c1450
wrinkle1528
purse1597
pucker1598
crinklea1600
crimple1600
rumple1622
ruckle1695
ruck1758
crunkle1825
pocket1873
crease1876
full1889
concertina1918
furrow1961
1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxv. 330 That carpet?.. Why, it hadn't begun to pocket yet.
5.
†a. intransitive. Mining. Of a vein of ore: to form into a pocket (pocket n. 7a). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxiv. 563 It may ‘pocket’ suddenly in a chamber the size of a keg.
b. transitive (in passive). To have pockets or small patches (of). Frequently with with.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with seam or pockets
pocket1896
seam1899
1896 Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. 2/1 One block of beautiful wavy white quartz was thickly pocketed..with the yellow metal.
1924 W. Beebe Galapagos i. 6 To the eye they [sc. icebergs] appeared flat and disklike, the ice in the air being thin as paper, scalloped and pocketed with circular cutouts.
1952 Guardian 3 Mar. 4/6 This long peninsula..was not much more than a pine-barren, pocketed with swamps, till the late nineteenth century.
2000 S. Heighton Shadow Boxer iii. ii. 307 It was dusk and midweek, the other camps deserted, the leafless dreary woods still pocketed with snow.
6. transitive. Medicine and Surgery. To enclose in a pocket (see pocket n. 3); to convert or form into a pouch, cavity, or depression.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > of tissue: become diseased [verb (transitive)] > form into a pouch
pocket1886
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > other surgical practices > perform other surgical practices [verb (transitive)] > form into a pouch
pocket1886
1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 612 The exudation being so effused into the meshes of the papillæ and Malpighian layer that the cavity is ‘pocketed’ and shows a central depression or umbilicus.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 20 634 This inflammation of the mucosa..causes adhesions of the mucous folds to each other, and so produces false diverticula in which the impregnated ovum may become pocketed.
1997 FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 20 292/2 Active cell wall turnover during growth ensures that the outermost surface of the wall is pocketed with numerous depressions.
II. Extended uses.
7.
a. transitive. To take or accept (an affront, etc.) without showing resentment; to submit to, endure meekly; to swallow.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)]
takec1175
dure1297
suffer1297
eata1382
to take in patiencec1385
to take awortha1387
endure1477
to go through ——1535
pocket1589
to sit down1589
hack1936
1589 R. Greene Spanish Masquerado sig. D2 Thus the great Generall of Spaine was content to pockette vppe this Dishonour to saue his life.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 126 Well ruffian, I must pocket vp these wrongs. View more context for this quotation
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 214 If he..pocket a wrong, and hold his hands, he is a coward.
1737 Common Sense I. 139 Some great Men who can pocket up a Kick or a Cuff with as good an Air as they cou'd a Bribe.
1769 Polit. Reg. Oct. 229 Your grace would have pocketed the affront.
1787 Berwick Museum Aug. 374/1 The Doctor, in order to allay the fears of the ladies, pocketed the insult with the best grace he could.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xliv. 429 ‘And he carries his drubbing with him, does he!’ said Ralph, turning away—‘pockets his bruises, and sneaks off without the retaliation of a word, or seeking the smallest reparation!’
1891 Leeds Mercury 2 May 7/1 The United States must pocket the rebuff with a pleasant diplomatic smile.
1900 Dict. National Biogr. at Wolsey, Thomas Wolsey knew that Charles, after mild remonstrance, would pocket the affront.
1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies iv. 232 I pocketed the insult. I didn't do anything.
b. transitive. To conceal, give no indication of, suppress (pride, anger, etc.).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > thoughts, feelings, etc.
stifle1610
pocket1704
bottlea1711
coy1873
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iv. 106 The two Unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their Mistake as hastily as they could.
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 1 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1598 Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
1833 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 23 Nov. 64/1 Moustache pocketed his wrath and his cowskin, paid a merited compliment to the placable temper of the apologist, and took his leave.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 115 The other generals, pocketing their pride,..handed over the undivided responsibility to Xanthippus.
1953 W. H. Lewis Splendid Cent. (1957) viii. 188 In 1655 they were forced to pocket their pride and solicit a union with their rivals, the barber-surgeons.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 28 Oct. c1 Norman is catching such great fish..that Paul is forced to pocket his pride and ask ‘What are they biting on?’
8. transitive. Horse Racing. To hem in (a competitor) in front and at the sides. Cf. pocket n. 10a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > race (a race) [verb (transitive)] > hem in competitor
pocket1877
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 439/3 In the succeeding heats..they ‘coopered’ me, ‘pocketed’ me, ‘swung corners’ with me, and managed to keep ‘there or thereabouts’ until the judges declared heat and race to ‘——’, their winner.
1901 Scotsman 16 Sept. 3/5 He tried to squeeze through between Fleur d'Eté and Sidus, and for his indiscretion he was very properly pocketed.
1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 13/4 This horse was hopelessly pocketed in his Newmarket race and got through too late.
1997 Independent on Sunday 1 June (Business & Sport section) 18 (caption) 11-8 shot Colombo..is pocketed on the rails by Medieval Knight.
†9. transitive. To hold (the representation of a constituency) under private control. Cf. pocket borough n. Obsolete.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > invest with right to vote [verb (transitive)] > hold constituency under private control
pocket1882
1882 J. Schouler Hist. U.S. I. 10 He was fond of his State.., and loyal to some one of the blood families who contended for the honor of pocketing the borough in which he voted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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