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pocketing |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr & vb n. {Pocketing}.] 1. To put or conceal, in the pocket; as to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. {To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. {To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak.
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