Definitions for pouches

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pouches pouch

Spelling: [pouch]

IPA: /paʊtʃ/

Pouches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in pouches (cehopsu).

Definitions for pouches

noun

1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities:
2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6. Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
8. Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
9. Botany. a baglike cavity.

verb (used with object)

1. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
2. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
3. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.

Origin of pouches

1350-1400; Middle English pouche Anglo-French, variant of Old French poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke²

Examples for pouches

pouches and sacks are also hung in racks to be distributed into.

Here the man who was to relieve him refused to take the pouches.

Their pouches shall be full of powder, their muskets new and bright.

And with the English gold in their pouches they sailed from Alfred's dominions.

Into each of these pouches there is an entrance from the lower side of the leaf.

Stepping back, her hands now reached for one of the pouches at her belt.

But the less we think of the strife when we are in the stall, the better for our pouches.

Even when caught with 100 pouches of tobacco the infractions are minor.

Once the tobacco is on the compound, the pouches wholesale for 50 books of stamps, or $300 each.

“The kitchen warehouse clerk was paid $1,000 for every 100 pouches to receive and store the tobacco,” the prisoner says.