Poach

[pəʊtʃ] or [potʃ]

Definition

(verb.) cook in a simmering liquid; 'poached apricots'.

(verb.) hunt illegally; 'people are poaching elephants for their ivory'.

Checked by Lemuel--From WordNet

Definition

(v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.

(v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.

(v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.

(v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

(v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling

(v. t.) To begin and not complete.

(v. i.) To become soft or muddy.

Checker: Marge

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Cook slightly (as eggs).[2]. Steal, filch, purloin, pilfer, CABBAGE, BOB, plunder by stealth.

v. n. Steal game.

Checker: Olga

Definition

v.t. to stab: poke: to tread on and make slushy.—n. Poach′iness.—adj. Poach′y wet and soft.

v.t. to dress eggs by breaking them into boiling water.

v.i. to intrude on another's preserves in order to steal game.—v.t. to steal game.—ns. Poach′er one who poaches or steals game: the widgeon from its habit of stealing the prey of other ducks; Poach′ing.

Typed by Kate