pocket noun a pouch made by Traveller women for their personal possesions; it was tied with ribbon or string round their waist and covered by an apron: They had round their waist a large pocket homemade by themselves, and they put it round their waist, like you would wear a sporran on your kilt, and it hung to the side, and all their worldly posessions was in this pocket… 20-. etymology: a development from English pocket ‘a small bag sewn into or on clothing so as to form part of it’; attested by BW and DW in DC |