poach

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poach1

▶verb cook by simmering in a small amount of liquid.

■ cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water.

– derivatives
poacher noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. pochier, earlier in the sense ‘enclose in a bag’, from poche ‘bag, pocket’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poach2

▶verb

• 1 illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.

• 2 take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way.

• 3 (of an animal) trample or cut up (turf) with its hoofs.

– derivatives
poacher noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘push roughly together’): appar. rel. to poke1; sense 1 is perh. partly from Fr. pocher (see poach1).