pouches is a form of:

Pouch



Same as: pocket
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
2.
That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
3.
A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
4.
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
5.
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
6.
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
7.
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
verb
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
2.
(TRANSITIVE) To put or take into a pouch.
1.
To pocket, to put up with
2.
To pout