pocketting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A newyeares gift, or a preſent. Alſo things giuen to gueſts, to be caried awaie with them at banquettings: pockettings."
- "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’."