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poaching
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Poaching is illegal hunting or fishing. Poaching or poacher may also refer to: Poaching (cooking) Poaching (snowboarding) In business, attracting workers from a rival company with better pay and conditions; see Executive search Poacher (fish) Goal poacher ...
WordNet
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n. cooking in simmering liquid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poach \Poach\ (p[=o]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poached (p[=o]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Poaching .] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See Pouch , v. & n.] To cook, ...
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n. Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting. vb. (present participle of poach English)
Usage examples of poaching.
He must, if the charge of poaching cannot be dropped, be a poacher and a foreign devil.
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.
The house commanded all four pools, which he knew to be the best, and even at midnight, with the owner unsuspecting, poaching would be nearly impossible.
This astounding epigram passed unnoticed save by Janet, for the lady, smiling benignly on the poaching trinity, went on to a practical application.
Muscled, thick arms and legs on a sturdy torso told Soldier that these beings had not always relied on poaching to feed themselves.
Hershey Zamzow and Rachel Mendelson concerning bear poaching and about the illegal trade in rare and endangered species.
Mayor of Sunchildston, or any who may be convicted of poaching on the said preserves, the Rangers shall forthwith arrest them and bring them before the Mayor of Sunchildston, who shall enquire into their antecedents, and punish them with such term of imprisonment, with hard labour, as he may think fit, provided that no such term be of less duration than twelve calendar months.
He will give you no trouble, but if he does, arrest him on a charge of poaching, and take him to the gaol, where we must do the best we can with him-- but he will give you none.
I shall rejoice, therefore, if you gentlemen can help me to sustain the charge of poaching, and thus give me legal standing-ground for deferring action which the King might regret, and which once taken cannot be recalled.
By the way, I was told I was poaching by a young lady who rode down to the stream while I was fishing.
Madame President, however, knew better and she had given him the job of cleaning up the poaching operation on Avionia, which had resulted in the arrest of numerous government officials, chief among them the Attorney General herself.
As Attorney General, Long had managed to find out more than he was authorized to know about the ultrasecret Avionian Project, and some prominent politicians and businessmen had gone to the penal colony called Darkside for their role in the poaching there.
He was referring to the men Nast had sent to Darkside for poaching on Avionia.
If those were peasants, poaching deer, then he might find a useful follower.
But as natural resources dwindled, what had been an honest occupation gradually became a crime, and an arrest for poaching just another risk of the business.