pouch

About 2.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
2. noun An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
3. noun Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
4. noun A protuberant belly; a paunch.
5. noun A cyst or sac containing fluid.
6. noun A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
7. noun A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
8. verb To enclose within a pouch.

   The beggar pouched the coin.

Similar words

pocket sack bulge protrude sac handbag purse bag knapsack pack

Often followed by

of and is in with on to or for

Word family

pouched pouches pouching