Definition of Pocketed

1. Verb. (past of pocket) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pocketed

1. pocket [v] - See also: pocket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketed

pocket protector
pocket protectors
pocket rat
pocket rockets
pocket square
pocket trumpet
pocket trumpets
pocket veto
pocket vetos
pocket watch
pocket watches
pocketable
pocketbook
pocketbooks
pocketcomb
pocketed (current term)
pocketed bat
pocketed calculus
pocketed freetail bat
pocketer
pocketers
pocketful
pocketfuls
pocketing
pocketknife
pocketknives
pocketless
pocketlike
pocketphone
pocketphones

Literary usage of Pocketed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of the Federal and State Constitutions of the United States: With an by Frederic Jesup Stimson (1908)
"pocketed Bills. — In most States, if a bill be kept a certain length of time by the governor, without returning it, it will become a law except in case of ..."

2. Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt (2005)
"Usually an opponent wanted an advantage like being able to win if they pocketed the nine or the eight ball instead of just the nine ..."

3. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"... rough with gorse and ling, and through pocketed hollows of bracken and trees. They came to a small Roman Catholic church in the fields. ..."

4. The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1862)
"... and the proceeds of the sale pocketed by the debtor, because he omitted to issue, register, and execute, and put in force a writ of execution, ..."

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