Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who poaches; one who intrudes on the preserves of another for the purpose of stealing game; one who kills game unlawfully.
- noun The sea-poacher, a fish.
- noun The widgeon, Mareca americana: so called from its habit of seizing the food for which other ducks have dived.
- noun A contrivance for poaching eggs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
- noun (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. The American widgeon.
- noun (Zoöl.) the lyrie.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
trespasses in order to takegame illegally , one whopoaches . - noun A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which
eggs are cooked over boiling water - noun soccer An attacker with good movement inside the
penalty box , see Wikipedia:Goal poacher. - noun Any of type of elongated
fish in the Agonidae family, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout,hooknose and rockhead.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
- noun a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
- noun small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
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Examples
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A poacher is a thief, pure and simple and I know absolutely no one who wishes to be around a thief.
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I think Ontario Honker said it best: A poacher is a poacher.
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I think a poacher is more likely to shoot a buck if he know's his taxidermist will mount it w/o a tag, so he's an accessory.
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A poacher is not going to follow the rules and report something unless it's a monster.
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I think Ontario Honker said it best: A poacher is a poacher.
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I think a poacher is more likely to shoot a buck if he know's his taxidermist will mount it w/o a tag, so he's an accessory.
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A poacher is a thief, pure and simple and I know absolutely no one who wishes to be around a thief.
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A poacher is not going to follow the rules and report something unless it's a monster.
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The poacher is the sealing schooner Mary Thomas, hunting the seal pack along the coast of Japan and north of the Bering Sea, running into a heavy fog, and unwittingly crossing the line "where the Russian bear kept guard" with 1,500 seal skins in salt piles in the hold.
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The poacher is in the same category, but he is also stupid, because he is stealing from himself -- he is cutting off his own nose.
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