[
UK
/pˈəʊtʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpoʊtʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊtʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
- small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
- a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
How To Use poacher In A Sentence
- An old poacher makes the best keeper.
- He is still one of the country's top goal poachers.
- It will support operations to protect animals and game reserves from poachers, and help with training and equipment. The Sun
- Ben Muirhead mishit it like normal and luckily I was able to react quickest - it's just goal-poacher's instinct!
- They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
- The Environmental Science course will examine how drones help catch poachers and monitor crop pests. The Sun
- The career path that sees the poacher turn into a gamekeeper is not unknown. Times, Sunday Times
- A police officer who takes to crime is likely to be more successful at it than most. The gamekeeper turned poacher has everything going for him.
- There are less than 200 of these wild cats left in Thailand and therefore it is difficult for hunters and poachers to find them.
- Security cameras have been installed to guard against poachers.
