Pouch

Tamil Meaning

பை

அடைப்பம்

English Meaning

  1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
  2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
  3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
  4. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.
  5. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.
  6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
  7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
  8. Scots A pocket.
  9. Archaic A purse for small coins.
  10. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
  11. To cause to resemble a pouch.
  12. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
  13. To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.