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Pouch vs Sabretache - What's the difference?

pouch | sabretache |

As nouns the difference between pouch and sabretache

is that pouch is a small bag usually closed with a drawstring while sabretache is a leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt.

As a verb pouch

is to enclose within a pouch.

pouch

English

Noun

(es)
  • A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  • A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  • Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  • (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  • A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    * bag * pocket * sack

    Verb

  • To enclose within a pouch.
  • To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
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  • (obsolete) To pout.
  • (Ainsworth)
  • (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
  • (Sir Walter Scott)
    (Webster 1913)

    sabretache

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt
  • “There were five buttons blown off my dress jacket; the slings of my sabretache were cut off, but my sword belts were not touched.” A Descriptive Account of the Famous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava.
    "Two years in Europe—with a campaign thrown in—would I think qualify me to be allowed to beat my sword into a paper cutter & my sabretache into an election address." Letter from Winston Churchill, on Army duty in India, to his mother, 1896