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pockety en · ADJ

Etymology

From pocket + -y.

Meanings

1. Occurring in isolated pockets.
   • It is commonly said of manganese ores that in their occurrence they are generally of a pockety nature, by which it is meant that the ores are found in limited masses surrounded by unproductive country rock, as opposed to the usual occurrence of other minerals in veins […] 1901, Charles Willard Hayes, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Arthur Coe Spencer, Report on a Geological Reconnoissance of Cuba, page 63:

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