pouch: meaning and definitions

A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.

A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.

A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.

A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.

Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.

Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.

Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.

Scots A pocket.

Archaic A purse for small coins.

To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.

To cause to resemble a pouch.

To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.