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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 [′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.

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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.