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pocket piece

American

noun

(in a window frame) a removable part of a pulley stile permitting access to sash weights.

Etymology

Origin of pocket piece

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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The "telephone coincidental" reports are gathered, run through I.B.M. machines, beaten into percentages and published every two weeks in "the pocket piece," a small green booklet that is every huckster's Bible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others carry the medal as a pocket piece.

From Time Magazine Archive

C. Hunter, with his signature, makes a fine pocket piece.

From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie

Mary has that shilling this blessed minute, put away in her purse for a pocket piece, and she carries it everywhere she goes.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Her precious talisman from the bride's cake, that she had carried as a pocket piece ever since Eugenia's wedding.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

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