Pocket

: for the billiards term, see pocket (billiards)

Related Topics:
Billiard - Pocket (billiards)

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: for the poker term, see pocket (poker)

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Poker - Pocket (poker)

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: for the military term, see Salients, re-entrants and pockets

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Military - Salients, re-entrants and pockets

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A pocket is a small bag, particularly a bag-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of clothing.

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Bag - Clothing

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The word appears in Middle English as poket, and is taken from a Norman diminutive of O. Fr. poke, pouque, mod. poche, cf. pouch. The form "poke" is now only used dialectically, or in such proverbial sayings as "a pig in a poke," and possibly in the poke-bonnet, the coal-scuttle bonnet fashionable during the first part of the 19th century, and now worn by the female members of the Salvation Army. More probably the name of the bonnet is connected with poke, to thrust forward, dig. The origin of this is obscure. Dutch has poken, pook, a dagger; Swedish has pk, a stick.

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Middle English - Norman - Poke-bonnet - 19th century - Salvation Army - Dutch - Dagger - Swedish

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A fob pocket is a small pocket designed to hold an old style pocket watch in mens' trousers and vests.

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