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Definition of Pocketing
1. pocket [v] - See also: pocket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocketing
Literary usage of Pocketing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"A four-stroke is made by playing at the white, making a cannon, and pocketing
your own or adversary's ball ; or by pocketing his and your own without the ..."
2. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"A four-stroke is made by playing at the white, making a cannon, and pocketing
your own or adversary's ball; or by pocketing his and your own without the ..."
3. Simplified Library School Rules: Card Catalog, Accession, Book Numbers by Melvil Dewey (1898)
"23 Stamping, plating, pocketing and labeling See also Catalog of 'ALA' ...
23C pocketing. If book pockets are used, paste them in center of inside of back ..."