0 old-fashioned for handkerchief
1 used to describe a garden or field that is very small and usually square:
Sharing everything with your neighbours, haven't even got a bit of garden to call your own except for that pocket handkerchief out there.
The more he was interrupted, the sooner he got to his motor mower and the pocket handkerchief to put it on.
He would agree that it would be very hard to get a farm on the scale of a pocket handkerchief in those inaccessible islands.
I represent a constituency that is a mixture of the two, if anyone can imagine an empire tied to a pocket handkerchief.
A helicopter can land on a pocket handkerchief.
It is occupied by garden plots which are of the average size of a pocket handkerchief.
And we must see that in a world context, where it is only the size of a pocket handkerchief.
I know a case in my constituency where a motor mower has been sent out to mow a lawn the size of a pocket handkerchief.
