Pouch vs Sabretache - What's the difference?
pouch | sabretache |
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.
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.
(obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.
a leather pocket or pouch worn hanging from a cavalry officer’s belt
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
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* bag * pocket * sackVerb
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sabretache
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(en noun)- “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