poach
verb
[ pəʊtʃ ]
• cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water.
• "a breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French pochier, earlier in the sense ‘enclose in a bag’, from poche ‘bag, pocket’.
poach
verb
• illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.
• "20 tigers are thought to have been poached from national parks"
Similar:
hunt illegally,
catch/trap/kill illegally,
plunder,
• (of an animal) trample or cut up (turf) with its hoofs.
• "zero-grazing saves the fields from poaching"
Origin:
early 16th century (in the sense ‘push roughly together’): apparently related to poke1; sense 1 is perhaps partly from French pocher ‘enclose in a bag’ (see poach1).
