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Game-hunting trespasser
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poacher
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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 ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches. 2 A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water 3 (context soccer English) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see ...
Wikipedia
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The poachers are a family ( Agonidae ) of small, bottom-dwelling, cold-water marine fish . They are also known as alligatorfishes , starsnouts , hooknoses , and rockheads . Poachers are notable for having elongated bodies covered by scales modified into ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poacher \Poach"er\ (p[=o]ch"[~e]r), n. One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law. (Zo["o]l.) The American widgeon. [Local, U.S.] Sea poacher (Zo["o]l.), the lyrie.
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.