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TOBACCO POUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tobacco pouch mean? 

TOBACCO POUCH (noun)
  The noun TOBACCO POUCH has 1 sense:

1. a pouch for carrying pipe tobaccoplay

  Familiarity information: TOBACCO POUCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TOBACCO POUCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A pouch for carrying pipe tobacco

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tobacco pouch" is a kind of...):

pouch (a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things)


 Context examples 


By the way, what do you make of that tobacco pouch, found on the scene of the crime?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had lost his hat somewhere, with the bunch of matches in the band, but the matches against his chest were safe and dry inside the tobacco pouch and oil paper.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He divided them into several portions, wrapping them in oil paper, disposing of one bunch in his empty tobacco pouch, of another bunch in the inside band of his battered hat, of a third bunch under his shirt on the chest.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)



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