Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mining, noting a lode in which the ore occurs in pockets, or small irregular bunches, instead of being somewhat uniformly distributed through the mass of the veinstone.
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Examples
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By the 1930s, the local oil deposits were pronounced to be “pockety.”
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Or if oil was really on the mesa, the reserves could be “pockety,” as they had been over the river in Mexican Hat.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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Some days I just don't feel pockety, other days I do.
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The best plan seemed to be to try and get to the top of a rise in the hope of seeing the lights of the city, but all the countryside was so pockety that it was hard to strike the right kind of rise.
Greenmantle 2005
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I have some claims over by Old Woman mountain, in San Bernardino county, and they're pockety.
The Long Chance 1918
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The best plan seemed to be to try and get to the top of a rise in the hope of seeing the lights of the city, but all the countryside was so pockety that it was hard to strike the right kind of rise.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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They are all very pockety, but have to be turned out before the clothes are sent to be baked.
My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890
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Owing to the "sporadic and pockety" nature of the finds it was at first supposed that gold would only be found in superficial deposits.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Like you I wish we'd crawled up the fundaments of a cabal of third-world potentates and panjandrums and lined their grubby pockety with our tax-payers' money.
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Boontling jargon might be called the "high-pockety."
SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Bonné 2010
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