POUCH, noun 1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag to be carried in the pocket. 2. A protuberant belly. 3. The bag or sack of a fowl, as that of the pelican. POUCH, verb transitive To pocket; to save. 1. To swallow; used of fowls, whose crop is called in French, poche. 2. To pout. [Not used.] POUCH'-MOUTHED, adjective Blubber-lipped. [Not used.] POUL'-DAVIS, noun A sort of sail cloth. [Not used.] POULE. [See Pool.]
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