Poacher
['pəʊtʃə] or ['potʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters.
(noun.) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs).
(noun.) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another.
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Definition
(n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
(n.) The American widgeon.
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Examples
- Margaret knew it was some poacher. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When he found me a vagabond shepherd of the hills, a poacher, an unlettered savage, still his kindness did not fail. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A poacher is everywhere a very poor man in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is Tory ground, where I and the 'Pioneer' are no more welcome than a poacher and his gun. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In countries where the rigour of the law suffers no poachers, the licensed hunter is not in a much better condition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No, they couldn't bring it in as that, said Sam, unless they could prove we had been poachers at some time of our lives. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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