POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pocket-handkerchief mean? 

• POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF (noun)
  The noun POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF has 1 sense:

1. a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket

  Familiarity information: POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A handkerchief that is carried in a pocket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pocket-handkerchief" is a kind of...):

handkerchief; hankey; hankie; hanky (a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory)

 Context examples 

He took his pocket-handkerchief and tied it round his head, in order that the man might not see it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He became as suddenly grave again, and leaning forward as before, said—first respectfully taking out his pocket-handkerchief, as if it really did represent my aunt: Most wonderful woman in the world, Trotwood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out—for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We wheeled him off into a narrow street, where he took out his pocket-handkerchief, and stood with his back to a wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He clattered all his means and implements together, rose from his chair, pulled out his pocket-handkerchief, and burst into tears.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The carrier, seeing me in this resolution, proposed that my pocket-handkerchief should be spread upon the horse's back to dry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was quite wet through, when the carrier stopped short.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Murdstone made a jail-delivery of her pocket-handkerchief, and held it before her eyes.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)