pocketting

English

Noun

pocketting (plural pockettings)

  1. Alternative spelling of pocketing.
    • c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act IIII, page 51:
      Phew, you rave now: / But if you have not periſhed all your reaſon, / Know I will uſe my freedome; you (forſooth) / For change of freſh apparell, and the pocketting / Of ſome well looking Duccats, were contented, / Paſſinglie pleas’d, yes marry were you (marke it) / To expoſe me to the danger now you raile at.
    • 1587, Thomas Thomasius, “Apŏphŏrēta”, in Dictionarium Linguæ Latinæ et Anglicanæ, […], 2nd edition (1589), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Ex officina Iohannis Legatt, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. […], →OCLC, signature E, verso, column 1:
      A newyeares gift, or a preſent. Alſo things giuen to gueſts, to be caried awaie with them at banquettings: pockettings.
    • 1979, Virginia F. Stern, “Oratory and eloquent written expression”, in Gabriel Harvey: His Life, Marginalia and Library, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →ISBN, part II (Marginalia), chapter 2 (Typical kinds of marginalia), pages 148–149:
      Harvey’s tiny vellum-bound volume of selections from Demosthenes was one of his favourites, and he evidently carried it with him frequently, for in the margin of sig. C2r he writes of it, ‘One of my pockettings, and familiar spirits’.

Verb

pocketting

  1. present participle and gerund of pocket
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