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“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
2012, Simon Heffer, “In Fagin's Footsteps”, in Literary Review, section 403:
There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.
2022 April 6, “Network News: Spring Statement: Sunak accused of making rail less competitive”, in RAIL, number 954, page 8:
"The financial impact of the fuel duty cut on people's pockets will in fact be minimal, […]"
(sports,billiards, pool,snooker) 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.
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:
She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
The drilling expedition discovered a pocket of natural gas.
(Australian rules football) 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.
For many years, the popular belief among NFL analysts was that the success of an NFL team comes with a quarterback who can stand tall in the pocket and deliver the ball downfield. Members of the elite group of active quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees, for instance, also earned their reputation by making plays almost exclusively from the pocket.
The Pocket Area is the area between the outside edges of the normal tackle positions on each side of the center extending backward to the offensive team's end line. After the ball leaves the pocket area, this area no longer exists.
(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
(rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
Matt Stevens was crumpled by Euan Murray in another scrum, allowing Parks to kick for the corner, and when Richie Gray's clean take from the subsequent line-out set up a series of drives under the posts, Parks was back in the pocket to belt over a drop-goal to make it 9-3 at the interval.
(surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
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.
(architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
(mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47:
They are comfortable trains with decent windows, ideal for observing a line which is one of the last pockets of manually operated crossing gates and semaphore signalling - [...].
(music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
The store manager, a woman in her 50s, saw Sasaki pocket the condoms and detained him at the entrance to the store, while another employee called police.
2024 October 16, Howard Johnston, “GBR is now in motion... but change will be a slow process”, in RAIL, number 1020, page 27:
Under the Shadow GBR, it will be interesting to see how the government resolves the current mismatch whereby the DfT is responsible for spending money, but HM Treasury pockets the cash from train operators.
She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.
2024 January 19, Larry Elliott, John Collingridge, quoting Radosław Sikorski, “Casting their shadow: how Trump, Putin and AI dominated talk at Davos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
“There is never a shortage of pocket [Neville] Chamberlains willing to sacrifice other people’s land for their own peace of mind,” Sikorski said.
(Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
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Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62