Pocket

: for the billiards term, see pocket (billiards)

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: for the poker term, see pocket (poker)

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: for the military term, see 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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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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A fob pocket is a small pocket designed to hold an old style pocket watch in mens' trousers and vests.

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Billiard: For the game, see Billiards....

Pocket (billiards): Pockets are holes with pockets on the sides of billiard tables. Not all billiard tables have pockets (for example, carambole billiards). Games that do use pockets are called "pocket billiards", and the goal is usually shoot balls into the pockets....

Poker: Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the remaining player or players with the best combination of cards. Poker can also refer to video poker which is...

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