pocket

A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.

A person's financial resources.

I paid for it out of my own pocket.

It should be remembered, however, that [Sir Thomas] Lawrence, who was now in demand, was charging from eighty to a hundred guineas for even his smallest portraits, a sum which would have been far beyond the pocket or inclination of the canny North countryman [George Stephenson], who had little use for empty honours.

An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.

An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.

The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.

An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.

To put (something) into a pocket.

[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.

[…] I ſtopt ſhort, and, pocketting my ducats in a great hurry, took out ſome rials, approached the hat, that was expoſed for the reception of charity extorted from chriſtians by fear, and dropt them into it, one after another, that the beggar might ſee how nobly I uſed him.

To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).

Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.

The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.

To put up with; to bear without complaint.

As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.

Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.

a pocket dictionary

Smaller or more compact than usual.

pocket battleship

pocket beach

Belonging to the two initial hole cards.

a pocket pair of kings