pouch

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Meaning

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

cartridge belt

ammunition belt

small bag

cartridge-belt

tool bag

imburse

sacculus

depression

seed-vessel

cartridge/ammunition belt

thrust ahead

of kangaroo

hangbag

game-bag

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/paʊt͡ʃ/

From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.