pocketting

Noun

pocketing (plural pocketings)

1. The act of something being taken (usually illicitly purloined).
   • By their count, the senator's illicit pocketings of money hugely exceeded Garfield's.1994, Edward Chalfant, Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, page 408
2. Material used for making pockets for clothing.
   • Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric.2011, Creative Publishing International, Tailoring: The Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket, page 27
3. A structure resembling a pocket or pouch.
   • Vampire bats are capable of perceiving infrared radiation (heat) through the pocketings in their noseleaves that can allow them to find a feeding spot on their prey that is well supplied with blood vessels.2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Mammalogy, page 23

Verb

pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing or (rare) pocketting, simple past and past participle pocketed or (rare) pocketted)

1. (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
   • [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
2. To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

   Synonyms:

   pot

3. (informal, transitive) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
   • Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.

   Synonyms:

   trouser

4. (dated, informal, transitive) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
   • As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register, page 557

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