/powch/ , n.
1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6. Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
8. Anat. , Zool. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
9. Bot. a baglike cavity.
v.t.
10. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
11. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
12. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.
v.i.
13. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.
[ 1350-1400; ME pouche poche; also poke, poque bag. See POKE 2 ]