Poaching
[potʃ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poach
Checked by Adelaide
Examples
- Sam Miles had been caught poaching, and Peter Bailey had gone to the workhouse at last. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It's a little against my feeling:--poaching, now, if you come to look into it--I have often thought of getting up the subject. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They say he is addicted to poaching, and often goes abroad at night with his gun. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He (who had been formerly inclined to be a sad free-thinker on these points) entered into poaching and game preserving with ardour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Erna