pocketbook

A leather or other receptacle, divided into compartments, and of shape and size suitable for carrying bills, coin, papers, ., in the pocket. pocket-borough, subst. A borough, the power of electing a parliamentary representative of which is in the hands of one person, or of a few persons at most. ( Eng .) *pocket-clock, subst . A watch. ( Donne : Poems, p. 247.) *pocket-cloth, s . A pocket-handkerchief. "Cannot I wipe mine eyes with the fair pocket - cloth ?" T. Brown : Works , i. 3.