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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.
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.
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poacher noun.
poacher noun.
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