\Pock"et\, n.
Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.

\Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F.
pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of
Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a pocket, and cf. {Poach} to cook
eggs, to plunder, and {Pouch}.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
   garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
   hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
   which the balls are driven.
3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
   ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
      sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
      the articles being sold by actual weight.
4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
   board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
5. (Mining.)
   (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
       other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
       cavity.
   (b) A hole containing water.
6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
   batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
7. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Pouch}.
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation
      of compound words usually of obvious signification; as,
      pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket
      handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or
      pocket-picking, etc.
{Out of pocket}. See under {Out}, prep.
{Pocket borough}, a borough ``owned'' by some person. See
   under {Borough}. [Eng.]
{Pocket gopher} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
   American rodents of the genera {Geomys}, and {Thomomys},
   family {Geomyd[ae]}. They have large external cheek
   pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
   North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
   Pacific. Called also {pouched gopher}.
{Pocket mouse} (Zo["o]l.), any species of American mice of
   the family {Saccomyid[ae]}. They have external cheek
   pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus
   {Dipadomys}), and are called {kangaroo mice}. They are
   native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
{Pocket piece}, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
   spent.
{Pocket pistol}, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
{Pocket sheriff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
   authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
   in the exchequer. --Burrill.

\Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Pocketing}.]
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the
   change.
         He would pocket the expense of the license.
                                               --Sterne.
2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
         He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
         been dead.                            --Macaulay.
{To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket
   of the table.
{To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront
   without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I
   must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak.