Fish pie course wanting contents in pouch (8)
I believe the answer is:
codpiece
'pouch' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'fish pie course wanting contents in' is the wordplay.
'fish' becomes 'cod' (type of fish).
'course' becomes 'e'.
'wanting' says to put letters next to each other.
'contents' becomes 'c' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'pie'+'e'='piee'
'piee' enclosing 'c' is 'piece'.
'cod'+'piece'='CODPIECE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for codpiece that I've seen before include "for promotion of virility?" , "What kept privates in place" , "Medieval male accoutrement for the nether regions" , "men put on centuries ago" , "Male dress item of former times" .)