"Pocket" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
This word is used as au adjective ln several compound legal phrases, carrying a meaning suggestive of, or aualogous to, its signification as a pouch, bag, or secret receptacle. For these phrases, see “Bor-ough,” “Judgment,” “Record,” “Sheriff,” and “Veto.”
A hole containing water.
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence,
figuratively, money; wealth.
To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the
change.
One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
Same as Pouch.
A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other
mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in
a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a
light spar can placed in the interspace.
She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.
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