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Poach   Listen
verb
Poach  v. t.  (past & past part. poached; pres. part. poaching)  
1.
To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
2.
To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.





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"Poach" Quotes from Famous Books



... equal thickness, and broil and brown them carefully and slightly over a clear smart fire, or in a Dutch oven; give those slices most fire that are least done; lay them in a dish before the fire to keep hot, while you poach the eggs and mash the potatoes. This makes a savoury luncheon or supper. The meat should be underdone ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... her keen eyes on her like a hawk. Murray Bradshaw was away, and here was this handsome and agreeable youth coming in to poach on the preserve of which she considered herself the gamekeeper. What did it mean? She had heard the story about Susan's being off with her old love and on with a new one. Ah ha! this is the ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Poach" :   track down, cook, poaching, hunt down, hunt, poacher


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