Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Pocketing}.]
   1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the
      change.

            He would pocket the expense of the license.
                                                  --Sterne.

   2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

            He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
            been dead.                            --Macaulay.

   {To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket
      of the table.

   {To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront
      without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I
      must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak.