Word Finder - pockets

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A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.

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Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.

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I paid for it out of my own pocket.

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An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.

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An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.

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The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.

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An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.

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The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.

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The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.

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An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.

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The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.

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A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.

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A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.

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A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.

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A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

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The pouch of an animal.

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The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.

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A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.

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A bight on a lee shore.

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A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.

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To put (something) into a pocket.

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To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

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To take and keep (something, especially money that is not one's own).

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Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.

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To shoplift; to steal.

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The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.

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To put up with; to bear without complaint.

He shoved his hands into the pockets of his smock.

He tucked his hands in his back pockets and shuffled his feet, the color in his face deepening.

Or was there anything in his pockets?

He jabbed his hands in his pockets and looked away.

She emptied her pockets and tossed her lunch in the fridge.

Dean searched for his wife but didn't spot Cynthia's colorful ski jacket among the pockets of viewers.

She stripped out of her long-sleeved shirt, leaving just her T-shirt on, then pulled out everything from her pockets she didn't need.

He poked thumbs into his pockets and challenged her.

Señor Medena shoved hands into his pockets.

He laughed shortly as he crammed his hands into his pockets.

Brandon crammed his hands into his pockets and stared at the floor, obviously in deep thought.

She dug through the pockets in her jeans and pulled out the stash of one dollar bills she'd been given for trips to the candy machine down the hall.

She shoved the phone and her hands in her pockets to keep them warm as she picked her way through the littered alley.

Sofia shrugged the sense of foreboding away and stuffed her hands into her pockets.

Damian pulled off his sweater to reveal a black T-shirt and tucked weapons into his cargo pants, boots, and pockets.

Dean willed his hands to remain in his pockets.

She tucked her hands in her back pockets and stared at the floor.

She shoved her hands in her pockets and walked inside.

Tucking gloved hands into the pockets of his leather coat, he headed toward the house.

His hands were in his pockets.

Kris and a few of his Immortals were surrounded in the middle of the park while demons darted from the forest to attack pockets of Immortals.

She jammed her hands in her pockets.

She shook her head and walked out of the bay into the foyer, tucking the micro and vault into her pockets.

The safe required the code from a key fob, which was probably in one of his pockets.

He jammed his hands into his pants pockets.

She shoved one blade into her belt and stripped the knives off the dead men, putting them in her cargo pockets.

Finally he slid his leg off the desk and resumed the pacing; his hands shoved deep into his pockets.

Jonny's hands went to his pockets.

Galena is of wide distribution, and occurs usually in metalliferous veins traversing crystalline rocks, clay-slates and limestones, and also as pockets in limestones.

Such prosecutions also put money into the pockets of the judges, and, if successful, into the public treasury.

In mixing concrete there is always a tendency for the stones to separate themselves from the sand and cement, and to form "pockets" of honeycombed concrete which are neither water-tight nor strong.

Modern engineers favour the practice of having the stones of various sizes instead of being uniform, because if these sizes are wisely proportioned the whole mixture can be made more solid, and the rough "pockets" avoided.

He disliked the formalities of the law, and in one instance, "the miller Arnold case," in connexion with which he thought injustice had been done to a poor man, he dismissed the judges, condemned them to a year's fortress arrest, and compelled them to make good out of their own pockets the loss sustained by their supposed victim - not a wise proceeding, but one springing from a generous motive.

The first was far less than the work free men did for a livelihood, the second larger, the third excessive, so that convicts often left prisons with thirty, forty, even eighty pounds in their pockets.

Now this ligament is inserted into the primary bars some distance below the upper limits of the gill-clefts, and it therefore follows that, corresponding with each tongue-bar, the atrial cavity is produced upward beyond the insertion of the ligament into a series of bags or pockets, which may be called the atrial pouches.

The deposits are generally in pockets, and the thickness of the beds ranges from 100 to nearly 500 ft.

The Caps succeeded in transferring L250,000 from the pockets of the rich to the empty exchequer, reducing the national debt by L575,179, and establishing some sort of equilibrium between revenue and expenditure.

It has a pocket-hole on either side, giving access to the pockets, which are always in the arkhalik, where also is the breast-pocket in which watch, money, jewels, and seals are kept.

In it are carried, by literati and merchants, the pen-case and a roll of paper; its voluminous folds are used as pockets; by the bazaar people and villagers, porters and merchants servants, a small sheath knife is struck in it; while by farrashes, the carpet-spreader class, a large khanjar, or curved dagger, with a heavy ivory handle, is carried.

As a matter of fact they were at the head of a combination for selling Menshikov's corn in preference to the corn of the Russian government and the bulk of the proceeds went into Menshikov's pockets.

In some cases the ova, after leaving the mouth, are lodged in the oral arms, and undergo the earliest phases of their development in this situation, accumulating in the grooves that continue the angles of the mouth, and bulging the wall of the groove into sacs or pockets.

The arrangement is obviously objectionable on the score of its conducing to local extravagance, as local authorities are not likely to be so economical with money that comes to them from the outside, as it were, as they would be with money directly taken from their own pockets.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.

People are induced to do things they would otherwise leave alone, Dr to leave alone what they would otherwise do, because money is given to them out of the pockets of the tax-payers to make it worth their while to do so; but there is palpably loss and not profit in the proceeding.

A particular tax is not necessarily to be condemned because it takes a little more out of the pockets of the people than what the government receives.

The state, for instance, could perhaps more usefully engage in some great works, such as establishing reservoirs of water for the use of town populations on a systematic plan, or making a tunnel under one of the channels between Ireland and Great Britain, or a sea-canal across Scotland between the Clyde and the Forth, or purchasing land from Irish landlords and transferring it to tenants, than allow money to fructify or not fructify, as the case may be, in the pockets of individuals.

But the king cared not when his pockets were full.

But abuses of every kind had clustered round them, and in many cases the profits had gone into the pockets of hangers-on of the court, whilst officials had given their assistance to the grantors even beyond their legal powers.

But English laymen, though asked to supply the money which he needed for the support of his army, deliberately kept it in their pockets, and the contributions of the clergy and of official persons were not sufficient to enable him to keep his troops long in the field.

The predominant landowners preferred the grant of an excise, which would be taken out of all pockets, to a land-tax which would exclusively be felt by those who were relieved by the abolition of the tenures.