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Gamekeeper's opponent
Answer for the clue "Gamekeeper's opponent ", 7 letters:
poacher
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Poacher was a 1970s British country music band from Warrington . Poacher won the British TV talent show New Faces in 1977. Poacher are best known for having preceded blues-rocker Frankie Miller 's version of the song " Darlin' ", by sax player Oscar Stewart ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "one who poaches game," agent noun from poach (v.1). Attested from 1846 as "vessel for poaching eggs," from poach (v.2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters [syn: sea poacher ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB turn ▪ Now that the gamekeeper has turned poacher , it is not clear whether Fabius will fight as hard as his predecessor for money. ▪ It was on the principle of turning the poacher into the gamekeeper. ▪ The gamekeeper, ...
Usage examples of poacher.
For his seedling idea that my father was in reality a poacher was doing its best to grow.
He must, if the charge of poaching cannot be dropped, be a poacher and a foreign devil.
For if he is not to be the Sunchild, and not to be your poacher, he becomes a mere monomaniac.
Choose whether you will have the prisoner to be your poacher or no: give me your sworn depositions one way or the other, and I shall know how to act.
If you depose on oath to the identity of the prisoner and your poacher, he will be convicted and imprisoned.
The charge of poaching was first gone into, but was immediately disposed of by the evidence of the two Professors, who stated that the prisoner bore no resemblance to the poacher they had seen, save that he was about the same height and age, and was respectably dressed.
He is a marvellously smelly old Shangane poacher, he must be eighty years old and his youngest wife is seventeen and presented him with twins last week.
If Tungata Zebiwe is the poacher, then he is using the profits to some special end.
From the poacher to the prime minister--wearying yourselves for very vanity!
Suddenly, she stopped dead as she saw the poacher bending over his cruel trap.
She ran straight at the poacher, throwing herself on him so that he was knocked off balance.
The poacher dropped his stick as he saw Vincent, recognising authority and fearing it.
But of course she had never expected to come across a poacher in broad daylight!
Had I not been so foolish as to rush in the way I did, you might have driven off the poacher and had the leisure to see what could be done.
Old Carter, one-time landlord of the Hare and Hounds, might have rec- ogniged this grim-faced avenger, as might a certain poacher who had not yet stopped running for his life--but Cassie did not know him.