meaning of pouch3
1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
3. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
4. A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
6. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherds purse.
7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc. , from shifting.
8. To put or take into a pouch.
9. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
10. To pout.
11. To pocket; to put up with.
12. a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things
Related Words
pouch | pouch-mouthed | pouch-shaped | pouch-shell | pouched | pouched mammal | pouched mole | pouched mouse | pouched rat | pouchet | pouching | pouchlike | pouchong |
