POACHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poacher mean? 

• POACHER (noun)
  The noun POACHER has 3 senses:

1. someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

2. a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)

3. small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

  Familiarity information: POACHER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POACHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("poacher" is a kind of...):

appropriator (someone who takes for his or her own use (especially without permission))

Derivation:

poach (hunt illegally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("poacher" is a kind of...):

cooking utensil; cookware (a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking)

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Derivation:

poach (cook in a simmering liquid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

poacher; sea poacher; sea poker

Hypernyms ("poacher" is a kind of...):

scorpaenoid; scorpaenoid fish (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poacher"):

Agonus cataphractus; armed bullhead; pogge (northern Atlantic sea poacher)

alligatorfish; Aspidophoroides monopterygius (small very elongate sea poachers)

Holonyms ("poacher" is a member of...):

Agonidae; family Agonidae (poachers)

 Context examples 

Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elephants, as well as other large, charismatic animals such as tigers, monkeys and civet cats, are under attack from hunters and poachers.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

The hunters, never more than roughly aware of the position of the ship, nevertheless knew that we were close to the boundaries of the forbidden sea, while Wolf Larsen’s record as a poacher was notorious.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her, and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other, had missed Mr. Crawford grievously; and Julia, unengaged and unemployed, felt all the right of missing him much more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)