Word Meaning

pouch definition and meaning

n. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
n. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
n. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
n. A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
n. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
n. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
n. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
v. t. To put or take into a pouch.
v. t. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
v. t. To pout.
v. t. To pocket; to put up with.

Crossword clues for pouch

- Pocket