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Poach \Poach\, v. i.
To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in
a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by
night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits
or for salmon.
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Poach \Poach\, v. t. [Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with
the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex,
and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to
thrust against.]
1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. [Obs.] --Carew.
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2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [Obs.]
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His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow
ground. --Sir W.
Temple.
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3. To make soft or muddy by trampling. --Tennyson.
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4. To begin and not complete. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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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.
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2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as
game; hence, to plunder. --Garth.
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Poach \Poach\, v. i.
To become soft or muddy.
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Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach
in winter. --Mortimer.
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