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pockety, a.|ˈpɒkɪtɪ|
Also pocketty.
[f. pocket n. + -y.]
1. Of a mine or mineral deposit: Characterized by pockets; having the ore unevenly distributed. Also fig.
1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 370 The vein is irregular and pockety. 1877Ibid. 177 Rich but ‘pockety’ mineral deposits. 1896Naturalist 289 The sandstones..and seams of lignite rapidly alternate one with another, assuming lenticular, pockety and other forms. 1920Galsworthy In Chancery ii. x. 204 The atmosphere of his house was strange and pocketty when Jolyon came in and told them of the dog Balthasar's death. The news had a unifying effect.
2. Of the nature of a secluded hollow. Also, characterized by secluded hollows.
1893E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 18 May, A tiny, pockety vale whose surface is almost level on either side to the edges of noble wooded bluffs. 1929J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. 257 Days with a bobbery pack of hounds in difficult pockety country. 1932― Gap in Curtain iv. 190 The river valley was pockety and swampy. |