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Poacher   /pˈoʊtʃər/   Listen
Poacher

noun
1.
Someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another.
2.
A cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs).
3.
Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters.  Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker.



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"Poacher" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself: 'Let us wait until twelve o'clock. Then this poacher will go to lunch and I shall get my place again. As for me, Monsieur le President, I lunch on that spot every Sunday. We bring our provisions in Delila. But there! At noon the wretch produced a chicken in a newspaper, and while he was eating, he ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... Edmee. "For my part, I preferred him in his poacher's garb. It suited his face and ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... chipmunk had his den in the side of the terrace above my garden, and spent the mornings laying in a store of corn which he stole from a field ten or twelve rods away. In traversing about half this distance, the little poacher was exposed; the first cover on the way from his den was a large maple, where he always brought up and took a survey of the scene. I would see him spinning along toward the maple, then from it by an easy stage to the fence adjoining the corn; then back again with his booty. One ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs
... supporters," laughed Robert; "a bit of a poacher and a bit of a pub-loafer, but he's ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... lichen-strewn stone wall and penetrated the thick undergrowth beyond. Hence he had returned, with white face and staring eyes, with the information that great wild dogs dwelt in the thickets. Subsequently the village poacher confirmed this information. He was not exactly loquacious on the subject, but merely hinted that the grounds of Longdean Grange were not salubrious for ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White


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