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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poached

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.]

  1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
    --Bacon.

  2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
    --Garth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poached

of eggs, mid-15c., past participle adjective from poach (v.2).

Wiktionary
poached
  1. Cooked, or obtained by poaching v

  2. (en-past of: poach)

WordNet
poached

adj. cooked in hot water [syn: boiled, stewed]

Usage examples of "poached".

When the eggs are nicely poached, remove the eggs, with the asparagus below, on to rounds of toasted and buttered bread.

Dip in half-set aspic the white of egg, poached and cut in fanciful shapes, and small gherkins cut in thin slices, and decorate the bottom and sides of a charlotte or cylindrical mould standing in ice water.

He was on turf as short as a lawn, cumbered with a tell-tale rod and a poached salmon.

If convenient, the eggs may be poached in a second dish, and in milk, water or stock.

Perhaps you have for breakfast poached eggs on toast, Deerfoot sausage or boiled ham.

During the tired embers of the 1990s the creatures had been illegally poached and hunted into the remote high country and the desert fastnesses.

All the way from New York I could taste the chubby oysters poached in their own sea-salt liquor, rich with woody smoke and the grassy sweetness of wild onions.

New York restaurant of bygone days called Divan Parisien, where poached chicken was laid on a bed of broccoli and covered with hollandaise sauce.