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Gopher
(gcide) | Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See
Gauffer.] (Zool.)
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family
Geomyid[ae]; -- called also pocket gopher and {pouched
rat}. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the
earth.
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2. One of several western American species of the genus
Spermophilus, of the family Sciurid[ae]; as, the gray
gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher
(S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also {striped prairie
squirrel}, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile.
See Spermophile.
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3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows.
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4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the
Southern United States.
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Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift,
following or seeking the ore without regard to regular
grade or section. --Raymond.
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gopher
(gcide) | Prairie \Prai"rie\, n. [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie,
LL. prataria, fr. L. pratum a meadow.]
1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of
trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually
characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound
throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies
and the Rocky mountains.
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From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the northland. --Longfellow.
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2. A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called
natural meadow.
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Prairie chicken (Zool.), any American grouse of the genus
Tympanuchus, especially Tympanuchus Americanus
(formerly Tympanuchus cupido), which inhabits the
prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the
sharp-tailed grouse.
Prairie clover (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus
Petalostemon, having small rosy or white flowers in
dense terminal heads or spikes. Several species occur in
the prairies of the United States.
Prairie dock (Bot.), a coarse composite plant ({Silphium
terebinthaceum}) with large rough leaves and yellow
flowers, found in the Western prairies.
Prairie dog (Zool.), a small American rodent ({Cynomys
Ludovicianus}) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the
plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in
the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like
that of a dog. Called also prairie marmot.
Prairie grouse. Same as Prairie chicken, above.
Prairie hare (Zool.), a large long-eared Western hare
(Lepus campestris). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack.
Prairie hawk, Prairie falcon (Zool.), a falcon of Western
North America (Falco Mexicanus). The upper parts are
brown. The tail has transverse bands of white; the under
parts, longitudinal streaks and spots of brown.
Prairie hen. (Zool.) Same as Prairie chicken, above.
Prairie itch (Med.), an affection of the skin attended with
intense itching, which is observed in the Northern and
Western United States; -- also called swamp itch,
winter itch.
Prairie marmot. (Zool.) Same as Prairie dog, above.
Prairie mole (Zool.), a large American mole ({Scalops
argentatus}), native of the Western prairies.
Prairie pigeon, Prairie plover, or Prairie snipe
(Zool.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2.
Prairie rattlesnake (Zool.), the massasauga.
Prairie snake (Zool.), a large harmless American snake
(Masticophis flavigularis). It is pale yellow, tinged
with brown above.
Prairie squirrel (Zool.), any American ground squirrel of
the genus Spermophilus, inhabiting prairies; -- called
also gopher.
Prairie turnip (Bot.), the edible turnip-shaped farinaceous
root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta) of the
Upper Missouri region; also, the plant itself. Called also
pomme blanche, and pomme de prairie.
Prairie warbler (Zool.), a bright-colored American warbler
(Dendroica discolor). The back is olive yellow, with a
group of reddish spots in the middle; the under parts and
the parts around the eyes are bright yellow; the sides of
the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer
tail feathers partly white.
Prairie wolf. (Zool.) See Coyote.
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gopher
(wn) | gopher
n 1: a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) [syn:
goffer, gopher]
2: a native or resident of Minnesota [syn: Minnesotan,
Gopher]
3: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: ground squirrel,
gopher, spermophile]
4: burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large
external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern
North America [syn: gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat]
5: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
[syn: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, {Gopherus
polypemus}] |
gopher
(foldoc) | gopher
A distributed document retrieval
system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at
the University of Minnesota, and which was popular in the
early 1990s.
Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like a
primitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks the
MIME features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of a
document's MIME type with a one-character code for the
"Gopher object type". At time of writing (2001), all Web
browers should be able to access gopher servers, although few
gopher servers exist anymore.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in his book "Weaving The Web" (pp.72-73),
related his opinion that it was not so much the protocol
limitations of gopher that made people abandon it in favor of
HTTP/HTML, but instead the legal missteps on the part of the
university where it was developed:
"It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the University
of Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee from
certain classes of users who wanted to use gopher. Since the
gopher software being picked up so widely, the university was
going to charge an annual fee. The browser, and the act of
browsing, would be free, and the server software would remain
free to nonprofit and educational institutions. But any other
users, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopher
server software.
"This was an act of treason in the academic community and the
Internet community. Even if the university never charged
anyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it was
reserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopher
protocols meant it had crossed the line. To use the
technology was too risky. Industry dropped gopher like a hot
potato."
(2001-03-31)
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gopher
(jargon) | gopher
n.
[obs.] A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced
around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing interface to a
tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents, runnable programs,
or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the net.
Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed at the
University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a sports
team). Others claim the word derives from American slang gofer (from “go
for”, dialectal “go fer”), one whose job is to run and fetch things.
Finally, observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling
through the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the
developers. Probably all three things were true, but with the first two
coming first and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor
and impetus to the project as it developed out of its concept stage.
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gopher
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gopher
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gopher hole
(encz) | gopher hole, n: |
gopher snake
(encz) | gopher snake, n: |
gopher tortoise
(encz) | gopher tortoise, n: |
gopher turtle
(encz) | gopher turtle, n: |
gopherwood
(encz) | gopherwood, n: |
northern pocket gopher
(encz) | northern pocket gopher, n: |
plains pocket gopher
(encz) | plains pocket gopher, n: |
pocket gopher
(encz) | pocket gopher, n: |
southeastern pocket gopher
(encz) | southeastern pocket gopher, n: |
valley pocket gopher
(encz) | valley pocket gopher, n: |
gopher
(gcide) | Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See
Gauffer.] (Zool.)
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family
Geomyid[ae]; -- called also pocket gopher and {pouched
rat}. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the
earth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several western American species of the genus
Spermophilus, of the family Sciurid[ae]; as, the gray
gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher
(S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also {striped prairie
squirrel}, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile.
See Spermophile.
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3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows.
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4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the
Southern United States.
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Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift,
following or seeking the ore without regard to regular
grade or section. --Raymond.
[1913 Webster]Prairie \Prai"rie\, n. [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie,
LL. prataria, fr. L. pratum a meadow.]
1. An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of
trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually
characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound
throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies
and the Rocky mountains.
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From the forests and the prairies,
From the great lakes of the northland. --Longfellow.
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2. A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called
natural meadow.
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Prairie chicken (Zool.), any American grouse of the genus
Tympanuchus, especially Tympanuchus Americanus
(formerly Tympanuchus cupido), which inhabits the
prairies of the central United States. Applied also to the
sharp-tailed grouse.
Prairie clover (Bot.), any plant of the leguminous genus
Petalostemon, having small rosy or white flowers in
dense terminal heads or spikes. Several species occur in
the prairies of the United States.
Prairie dock (Bot.), a coarse composite plant ({Silphium
terebinthaceum}) with large rough leaves and yellow
flowers, found in the Western prairies.
Prairie dog (Zool.), a small American rodent ({Cynomys
Ludovicianus}) allied to the marmots. It inhabits the
plains west of the Mississippi. The prairie dogs burrow in
the ground in large warrens, and have a sharp bark like
that of a dog. Called also prairie marmot.
Prairie grouse. Same as Prairie chicken, above.
Prairie hare (Zool.), a large long-eared Western hare
(Lepus campestris). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack.
Prairie hawk, Prairie falcon (Zool.), a falcon of Western
North America (Falco Mexicanus). The upper parts are
brown. The tail has transverse bands of white; the under
parts, longitudinal streaks and spots of brown.
Prairie hen. (Zool.) Same as Prairie chicken, above.
Prairie itch (Med.), an affection of the skin attended with
intense itching, which is observed in the Northern and
Western United States; -- also called swamp itch,
winter itch.
Prairie marmot. (Zool.) Same as Prairie dog, above.
Prairie mole (Zool.), a large American mole ({Scalops
argentatus}), native of the Western prairies.
Prairie pigeon, Prairie plover, or Prairie snipe
(Zool.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2.
Prairie rattlesnake (Zool.), the massasauga.
Prairie snake (Zool.), a large harmless American snake
(Masticophis flavigularis). It is pale yellow, tinged
with brown above.
Prairie squirrel (Zool.), any American ground squirrel of
the genus Spermophilus, inhabiting prairies; -- called
also gopher.
Prairie turnip (Bot.), the edible turnip-shaped farinaceous
root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta) of the
Upper Missouri region; also, the plant itself. Called also
pomme blanche, and pomme de prairie.
Prairie warbler (Zool.), a bright-colored American warbler
(Dendroica discolor). The back is olive yellow, with a
group of reddish spots in the middle; the under parts and
the parts around the eyes are bright yellow; the sides of
the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer
tail feathers partly white.
Prairie wolf. (Zool.) See Coyote.
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Gopher drift
(gcide) | Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See
Gauffer.] (Zool.)
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family
Geomyid[ae]; -- called also pocket gopher and {pouched
rat}. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the
earth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several western American species of the genus
Spermophilus, of the family Sciurid[ae]; as, the gray
gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher
(S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also {striped prairie
squirrel}, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile.
See Spermophile.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows.
[1913 Webster]
4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the
Southern United States.
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Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift,
following or seeking the ore without regard to regular
grade or section. --Raymond.
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Gopher plum
(gcide) | Plum \Plum\, n. [AS. pl[=u]me, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. ?, ?.
Cf. Prune a dried plum.]
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1. (Bot.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the {Prunus
domestica}, and of several other species of Prunus;
also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
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The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties
of plum, of our gardens, although growing into
thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the
blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. --G.
Bentham.
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Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from
the Prunus domestica are described; among them the
greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or
Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are
some of the best known.
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Note: Among the true plums are;
Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or
purple globular drupes,
Bullace plum. See Bullace.
Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its
round red drupes.
Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size,
much grown in England for sale in the markets.
Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or
yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several
other varieties.
[1913 Webster] Among plants called plum, but of other
genera than Prunus, are;
Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and {Cargillia
australis}, of the same family with the persimmon.
Blood plum, the West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri.
Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.
Date plum. See under Date.
Gingerbread plum, the West African {Parinarium
macrophyllum}.
Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime.
Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.
Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia.
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2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
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3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
person possessing it.
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4. Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or
choice thing of its kind, as among appointments,
positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded
his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for
handsome pay
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
5. A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep
purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.
[PJC]
Plum bird, Plum budder (Zool.), the European bullfinch.
Plum gouger (Zool.), a weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus
scutellaris}), which destroys plums. It makes round holes
in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva
bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
Plum weevil (Zool.), an American weevil which is very
destructive to plums, nectarines, cherries, and many other
stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped
incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the
pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and {plum
curculio}. See Illust. under Curculio.
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gopher snake
(gcide) | bullsnake \bull"snake`\, bull snake \bull"
snake`\(b[oo^]l"sn[=a]k`), n.
any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American
burrowing snakes of the genus Pituophis. They include the
gopher snake and pine snake.
Syn: .
[WordNet 1.5] |
Gopher State
(gcide) | Gopher State \Go"pher State\
Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of
gophers.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Gopher wood
(gcide) | Gopher wood \Go"pher wood`\ [Heb. g[=o]pher.]
A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark.
--Gen. vi. 14.
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Gopherus
(gcide) | Gopherus \Gopherus\ n.
A genus comprising the gopher tortoises, North AMerican
burrowing toroises.
Syn: genus Gopherus.
[WordNet 1.5] |
gopherwood
(gcide) | gopherwood \gopherwood\ n.
A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree ({Cladrastis
lutea}) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and
heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called yellowwood.
Syn: Kentucky yellowwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis
kentukea, yellowwood.
[WordNet 1.5] |
pocket gopher
(gcide) | Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See
Gauffer.] (Zool.)
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family
Geomyid[ae]; -- called also pocket gopher and {pouched
rat}. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the
earth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several western American species of the genus
Spermophilus, of the family Sciurid[ae]; as, the gray
gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher
(S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also {striped prairie
squirrel}, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile.
See Spermophile.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows.
[1913 Webster]
4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the
Southern United States.
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Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift,
following or seeking the ore without regard to regular
grade or section. --Raymond.
[1913 Webster]Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF.
poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche;
probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf.
Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
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2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
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3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
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Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
the articles being sold by actual weight.
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4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
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5. (Mining.)
(a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
cavity.
(b) A hole containing water.
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6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
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7. (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
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8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
(d) a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally
filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e) (Dentistry) a small space between a tooth and the
adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the
gum from the tooth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
9. An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast
to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an
affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered
territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
[PJC]
10. (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a
pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the
defensive players of his own team who protect him from
attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket
to choose an open receiver.
[PJC]
11. (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm
of the wearer's hand.
[PJC]
12. (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the
pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point
at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a
strike.
[PJC]
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small,
or in the formation of compound words usually of
obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb,
pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief,
pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
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deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to
find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able
to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be
judged due to him. This contrasts with a
"judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets
nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary
damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under
Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of
American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys,
family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek
pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), any species of American mice of the
family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys),
and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the
Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
spent.
Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
in the exchequer. --Burrill.
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Pocket gopher
(gcide) | Gopher \Go"pher\, n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See
Gauffer.] (Zool.)
1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the
genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family
Geomyid[ae]; -- called also pocket gopher and {pouched
rat}. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to
many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the
earth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several western American species of the genus
Spermophilus, of the family Sciurid[ae]; as, the gray
gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher
(S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also {striped prairie
squirrel}, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile.
See Spermophile.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows.
[1913 Webster]
4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the
Southern United States.
[1913 Webster]
Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift,
following or seeking the ore without regard to regular
grade or section. --Raymond.
[1913 Webster]Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF.
poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche;
probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf.
Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
the articles being sold by actual weight.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Mining.)
(a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
cavity.
(b) A hole containing water.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
[1913 Webster]
8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
(d) a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally
filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e) (Dentistry) a small space between a tooth and the
adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the
gum from the tooth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
9. An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast
to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an
affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered
territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
[PJC]
10. (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a
pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the
defensive players of his own team who protect him from
attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket
to choose an open receiver.
[PJC]
11. (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm
of the wearer's hand.
[PJC]
12. (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the
pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point
at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a
strike.
[PJC]
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small,
or in the formation of compound words usually of
obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb,
pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief,
pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
[1913 Webster]
deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to
find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able
to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be
judged due to him. This contrasts with a
"judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets
nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary
damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under
Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of
American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys,
family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek
pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), any species of American mice of the
family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys),
and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the
Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
spent.
Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
in the exchequer. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster] |
pouched gopher
(gcide) | Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF.
poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche;
probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf.
Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
the articles being sold by actual weight.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Mining.)
(a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
cavity.
(b) A hole containing water.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
[1913 Webster]
8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
(d) a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally
filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e) (Dentistry) a small space between a tooth and the
adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the
gum from the tooth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
9. An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast
to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an
affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered
territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
[PJC]
10. (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a
pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the
defensive players of his own team who protect him from
attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket
to choose an open receiver.
[PJC]
11. (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm
of the wearer's hand.
[PJC]
12. (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the
pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point
at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a
strike.
[PJC]
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small,
or in the formation of compound words usually of
obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb,
pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief,
pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
[1913 Webster]
deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to
find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able
to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be
judged due to him. This contrasts with a
"judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets
nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary
damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under
Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of
American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys,
family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek
pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), any species of American mice of the
family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys),
and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the
Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
spent.
Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
in the exchequer. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]Pouched \Pouched\, a. (Zool.)
(a) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or
the wombat.
(b) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.
(c) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched
squirrels.
[1913 Webster]
Pouched dog. (Zool.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra.
Pouched frog (Zool.), the nototrema, the female of which
has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in
which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.
Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zool.) See {Pocket
gopher}, under Pocket.
Pouched mouse. (Zool.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.
[1913 Webster] |
Pouched gopher
(gcide) | Pocket \Pock"et\ (p[o^]k"[e^]t), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF.
poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche;
probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf.
Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a
garment for carrying small articles, particularly money;
hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
[1913 Webster]
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into
which the balls are driven.
[1913 Webster]
3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as
ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a
sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity,
the articles being sold by actual weight.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of
board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
[1913 Webster]
5. (Mining.)
(a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or
other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a
cavity.
(b) A hole containing water.
[1913 Webster]
6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a
batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
[1913 Webster]
7. (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
[1913 Webster]
8. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;
specif.:
(a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
(b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
(c) A bight on a lee shore.
(d) a small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally
filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
(e) (Dentistry) a small space between a tooth and the
adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the
gum from the tooth.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
9. An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast
to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an
affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered
territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
[PJC]
10. (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a
pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the
defensive players of his own team who protect him from
attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket
to choose an open receiver.
[PJC]
11. (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm
of the wearer's hand.
[PJC]
12. (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the
pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point
at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a
strike.
[PJC]
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small,
or in the formation of compound words usually of
obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb,
pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief,
pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
[1913 Webster]
deep pocket or
deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to
find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able
to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be
judged due to him. This contrasts with a
"judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets
nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary
damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See under
Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of
American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys,
family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek
pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit
North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the
Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), any species of American mice of the
family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys),
and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the
Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not
spent.
Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole
authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges
in the exchequer. --Burrill.
[1913 Webster]Pouched \Pouched\, a. (Zool.)
(a) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or
the wombat.
(b) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.
(c) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched
squirrels.
[1913 Webster]
Pouched dog. (Zool.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra.
Pouched frog (Zool.), the nototrema, the female of which
has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in
which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.
Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zool.) See {Pocket
gopher}, under Pocket.
Pouched mouse. (Zool.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.
[1913 Webster] |
genus gopherus
(wn) | genus Gopherus
n 1: gopher tortoises [syn: Gopherus, genus Gopherus] |
gopher
(wn) | gopher
n 1: a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) [syn:
goffer, gopher]
2: a native or resident of Minnesota [syn: Minnesotan,
Gopher]
3: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: ground squirrel,
gopher, spermophile]
4: burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large
external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern
North America [syn: gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat]
5: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
[syn: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, {Gopherus
polypemus}] |
gopher hole
(wn) | gopher hole
n 1: a hole in the ground made by gophers |
gopher snake
(wn) | gopher snake
n 1: large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows;
found in southern North America and Mexico [syn: {indigo
snake}, gopher snake, Drymarchon corais]
2: bull snake of western North America that invades rodent
burrows [syn: gopher snake, Pituophis melanoleucus] |
gopher state
(wn) | Gopher State
n 1: a midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State,
North Star State, MN] |
gopher tortoise
(wn) | gopher tortoise
n 1: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North
America [syn: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher,
Gopherus polypemus] |
gopher turtle
(wn) | gopher turtle
n 1: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North
America [syn: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher,
Gopherus polypemus] |
gopherus
(wn) | Gopherus
n 1: gopher tortoises [syn: Gopherus, genus Gopherus] |
gopherus agassizii
(wn) | Gopherus agassizii
n 1: burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and
northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus
Xerobates [syn: desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii] |
gopherus polypemus
(wn) | Gopherus polypemus
n 1: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North
America [syn: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher,
Gopherus polypemus] |
gopherwood
(wn) | gopherwood
n 1: small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy
white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood
yielding yellow dye [syn: Kentucky yellowwood,
gopherwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis kentukea] |
northern pocket gopher
(wn) | northern pocket gopher
n 1: greyish to brown gopher of western and central United
States [syn: northern pocket gopher, {Thomomys
talpoides}] |
plains pocket gopher
(wn) | plains pocket gopher
n 1: gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America [syn:
plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius] |
pocket gopher
(wn) | pocket gopher
n 1: burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large
external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern
North America [syn: gopher, pocket gopher, {pouched
rat}] |
southeastern pocket gopher
(wn) | southeastern pocket gopher
n 1: gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida [syn:
southeastern pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis] |
valley pocket gopher
(wn) | valley pocket gopher
n 1: of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States
[syn: valley pocket gopher, Thomomys bottae] |
gopher
(foldoc) | gopher
A distributed document retrieval
system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at
the University of Minnesota, and which was popular in the
early 1990s.
Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like a
primitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks the
MIME features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of a
document's MIME type with a one-character code for the
"Gopher object type". At time of writing (2001), all Web
browers should be able to access gopher servers, although few
gopher servers exist anymore.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in his book "Weaving The Web" (pp.72-73),
related his opinion that it was not so much the protocol
limitations of gopher that made people abandon it in favor of
HTTP/HTML, but instead the legal missteps on the part of the
university where it was developed:
"It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the University
of Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee from
certain classes of users who wanted to use gopher. Since the
gopher software being picked up so widely, the university was
going to charge an annual fee. The browser, and the act of
browsing, would be free, and the server software would remain
free to nonprofit and educational institutions. But any other
users, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopher
server software.
"This was an act of treason in the academic community and the
Internet community. Even if the university never charged
anyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it was
reserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopher
protocols meant it had crossed the line. To use the
technology was too risky. Industry dropped gopher like a hot
potato."
(2001-03-31)
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gopher client
(foldoc) | Gopher client
A program which runs on your local computer and
provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to
gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and
simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary
terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other
systems.
(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/).
(2001-03-31)
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gopher object type
(foldoc) | Gopher object type
A character specifying how to display a Gopher document.
Current types are:
0 document
1 menu
2 CSO phone book entity
3 error
4 binhex binary
5 DOS binary (deprecated)
6 UU binary (deprecated)
7 index search
8 telnet connection
9 binary
+ duplicate server for previous object
I image
M MIME document
T tn3270 based telnet connection
c cal
g GIF image
h HTML
s binary
u Usenet newsgroup
(1999-10-14)
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gopherspace
(foldoc) | Gopherspace
The sum of all files that can be reached using
gopher.
(2005-06-08)
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gopher
(jargon) | gopher
n.
[obs.] A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced
around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing interface to a
tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents, runnable programs,
or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the net.
Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed at the
University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a sports
team). Others claim the word derives from American slang gofer (from “go
for”, dialectal “go fer”), one whose job is to run and fetch things.
Finally, observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling
through the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the
developers. Probably all three things were true, but with the first two
coming first and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor
and impetus to the project as it developed out of its concept stage.
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gopher hole
(jargon) | gopher hole
n.
1. Any access to a gopher.
2. [Amateur Packet Radio] The terrestrial analog of a wormhole (sense 2),
from which this term was coined. A gopher hole links two amateur packet
relays through some non-ham radio medium.
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