资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pocket \Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F.
   pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of
   Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a pocket, and cf. {Poach} to cook
   eggs, to plunder, and {Pouch}.]
   1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
      garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
      hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

   2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
      which the balls are driven.

   3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
      ginger, hops, cowries, etc.

   Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
         sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
         the articles being sold by actual weight.

   4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
      board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.

   5. (Mining.)
      (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
          other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
          cavity.
      (b) A hole containing water.

   6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
      batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.

   7. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Pouch}.

   Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation
         of compound words usually of obvious signification; as,
         pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket
         handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or
         pocket-picking, etc.

   {Out of pocket}. See under {Out}, prep.

   {Pocket borough}, a borough ``owned'' by some person. See
      under {Borough}. [Eng.]

   {Pocket gopher} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
      American rodents of the genera {Geomys}, and {Thomomys},
      family {Geomyd[ae]}. They have large external cheek
      pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
      North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
      Pacific. Called also {pouched gopher}.

   {Pocket mouse} (Zo["o]l.), any species of American mice of
      the family {Saccomyid[ae]}. They have external cheek
      pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus
      {Dipadomys}), and are called {kangaroo mice}. They are
      native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.

   {Pocket piece}, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
      spent.

   {Pocket pistol}, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.

   {Pocket sheriff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
      authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
      in the exchequer. --Burrill.

Borough \Bor"ough\, n. [OE. burgh, burw, boru, port, town,
   burrow, AS. burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS.
   & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth.
   ba['u]rgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save,
   defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill,
   mountain. [root]95. See {Bury}, v. t., and cf. {Burrow},
   {Burg}, {Bury}, n., {Burgess}, {Iceberg}, {Borrow}, {Harbor},
   {Hauberk}.]
   1. In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also,
      a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a
      body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain
      district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain
      jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village,
      as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. --Burrill. Erskine.

   2. The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a
      borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

   {Close borough}, or {Pocket borough}, a borough having the
      right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination
      is in the hands of a single person.

   {Rotten borough}, a name given to any borough which, at the
      time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained
      but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a
      member to Parliament.

资料来源 : WordNet®

pocket borough
     n : a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the
         land is owned by a single family