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pocket

1. Billiards Snooker any of the six holes with pouches or nets let into the corners and sides of a billiard table
2. Australian Rules football a player in one of two side positions at the ends of the ground
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Pocket

A recess in a wall to allow passage of a sliding door hanging on a track.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

What does it mean when you dream about a pocket?

A pocket can be a symbol of female sexuality. In a dream, a pocket might contain our possessions or, alternatively, things that we hide or keep secret. A dream about pockets might also be alluding to the meaning of certain idioms, such as someone “lining their own pockets,” “burning a hole in one’s pocket,” “deep pockets,” or “to be in someone’s pocket.”.

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pocket

[′päk·ət]
(building construction)
A recess in a wall designed to receive a folding or sliding door in the open position.
(civil engineering)
A recess made in masonry to receive the end of a beam.
(computer science)
One of the several receptacles into which punched cards are fed by a card sorter.
(geology)
A cavity that contains a deposit such as a gas or an ore.
An enclosed or sheltered place along a coast, such as a reentrant between rocky, cliffed headlands or a bight on a lee shore.
(mining engineering)
A receptacle from which coal, ore, or waste is loaded into wagons or cars.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

pocket

1. A recess in masonry to receive the end of a beam.
2. The slot in the pulley stile of a double-hung window frame, through which the sash weight is passed into the sash weight channel; a sash pocket.
3. A recess at the head or jamb of a wall opening to receive a curtain.
4. A recess in the interior jamb of a window to receive a folding shutter when open.
5. A recess in a wall to receive a folding door in the open position.
6.See stage pocket.
7. A well-defined opening between the annual rings which develops during the growth of a tree.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Pockets

(dreams)
From a Freudian point of view, pockets may symbolize the female reproductive organs. However, for many people this dream may have an entirely different meaning. The pockets in your dreams could represent those things that you keep just for yourself: your memory, your secrecy, your valuable possessions, or your inner resources. If you were hiding your hands in the pockets, it suggests that you may feel a degree of helplessness or guilt in regard to some situation in daily life.
Bedside Dream Dictionary by Silvana Amar Copyright © 2007 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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A Pocketful of Magic involves the telling of magical tales from Wales, Scotland and Nepal.
At a town hall meeting in Albuquerque yesterday, Obama emptied his pocket and displayed a "cupped handful" of the charms, later explaining that he had collected "'50, maybe 100' keepsakes from supporters, explaining, 'I try to select a number on any given day' to carry around." To read the post -- which relays an exchange between the trinket-touter and a reporter on this breaking good-luck-charm issue -- click here and scroll to the post titled "Obama's Pocketful of Talismans."
Aoude and his companion allegedly swore at him, threw a pocketful of change at him, and taunted Buzzy by barking and yelling at him.
was an assistant director on his father's 1961 Bette Davis film "Pocketful of Miracles." He was a producer of three "Planet of the Apes" sequels and produced and directed several early television series, including "Gunsmoke" and "Dennis the Menace." He was associate producer on Woody Allen's "Play it Again, Sam." He served as president of Avco-Embassy Pictures in the 1970s.
Yes they did get involved - not to deal with the boys, but to question Mr Davies about allegations of assault, to arrest him, to start demanding why he had a pocketful of cash, to suggest he was a money-launderer.
Three years ago, Rebekah Johnson and Hollis Thompson had written and recorded the song "Pocketful of Change." Thompson regularly was performing it live.
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The Political Club for Growth was formed in the early 1980s by a group of roughly two dozen New York businessmen who interviewed candidates for office, testing their conservative bona tides on fiscal issues and rewarding acceptable political hopefuls with a pocketful of checks.
You might want to jingle your own pocketful of coins and challenge the class to use the clues to figure out what coins are in your pocket.
While Sajjad says a real business requires at least "two to three million yen" in startup capital and an office, many here start with little more than a cellphone, a place to sleep on the floor of a friend's apartment and a pocketful of dreams.
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