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

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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.
Like land-based versions of dragonfish, they use this private wavelength to ambush myopic prey like tiny poachers in night-vision goggles. Smithsonian Mag
“Heh, my sonnies!” said the poacher in a piping voice. Overture to Death
About a dozen anti-war protesters shouted "terrorists" and held placards saying "Anglian soldiers go to hell" and "butchers of Basra" as soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Poachers, paraded through Luton town centre at midday yesterday. Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
Airdrie found the net again first, a poacher's special by Owen Coyle after Martin Hardie's curling shot came back off the post.
This left the celebrated poacher Novo free to drift into a more central, and potentially more promising, striking position.
Since his days as a militant student, he has cut his hair, put on a suit and is now the classic example of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
Although poachers attacked and killed the leader of antipoaching patrols in the region, the crusade has drawn worldwide attention and helped antelope herds to triple in size to 60,000 animals from 1998 to 2008. NYT > Home Page
The kitchen'll be turning out seasonal, elevated tavern victuals including a trio of rotating savory pies e.g., lamb & rosemary, curried chicken; hare/wood pigeon/venison-filled Poacher's Soup; Lancashire hot pots w/ braised lamb shoulder; and, sided by a savoy cabbage & wild mushroom casserole, a roasted Berkshire rack, which can happen pretty quickly considering how pale everyone is there. Thrillist: Jones Wood Foundry: A Pub With Proprietary Beer and Meat Pies
It was a real poacher's goal - one that roused the crowd and the home side. Times, Sunday Times
There appeared to be ‘quite’ an operation being conducted in the house because the alleged poachers even had a scale to weigh the perlemoen.
When it came to scoring goals, from long-range, from headers, overhead kicks, close in poachers, Law was a genius when it came to putting a ball in the back of the net.
His notoriety first spread as the poacher of wild elephants for their precious tusks.
The twenty-three Japanese poachers were arrested and taken to Honolulu for trial, and the _Thetis_ also brought away all the stolen wings and plumage with the exception of one shedful of wings that had to be left behind on account of lack of carrying space. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
The Law was perfectly adequate before the Hunting Act 2005 to prosecute didicoy poachers coursing their lurchers on private land and in this regard the new Act is quite otiose. Archive 2007-07-01
Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher. The Piazza Tales
These poacher patrols are armed and the people they encounter can be heavily armed as well.
Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply. Times, Sunday Times
The illegal perlemoen trade is a lucrative business, with an estimated 150 poachers operating in the city alone.
In the 1970s the poachers came with long spears. Times, Sunday Times
The dogbane, which is perfectly adapted to the butterfly, and dependent upon it for help in producing fertile seed, ruthlessly destroys all poachers that are not big or strong enough to jerk away from its vise-like grasp. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
As a direct result, "parrot patrols" organized by local communities in the region, 11 scarlet macaw chicks who were confiscated directly from poachers were provided care until they were old enough to fly and rejoin their flocks and families, instead of spending the rest of their lives in small cages. Will Travers: Canary in a Coal Mine? A Day to Save the Birds....
Detectives can be hard-boiled, soft-centred, scrambled - brained or gamekeepers turned poachers.
Arsenal have strengthened all over, perhaps solving their lack of a natural goal-poacher in the predatory Francis Jeffers.
Beautifully cut double-breasted business suits were matched with soft poacher's caps. Times, Sunday Times
Their relationship was that of poacher and gamekeeper; respect was tinged with old enmities. THE ENDLESS GAME
First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Waverley
Considering they were up against two of the Second division's deadliest and costliest poachers in Martin Butler and Jamie Cureton they looked remarkably comfortable.
These poachers are confident that nine times out of ten, they'll smack that ball into the net, taking the glory and confirming their attitude.
Hopefully they make an example of this guy and hopefully can help in deterring poachers. Kentucky Man Faces Stiff Poaching Penalties
The higgler to whom the hare was sold, being unfortunately taken many months after with a quantity of game upon him, was obliged to make his peace with the squire, by becoming evidence against some poacher. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
But luckily there are very few poachers there because the Mpassa River is completely unnavigable until the stretch near the reserve - there are rapids everywhere.
That was then and now is now, when younger and more tender farmed abalones are almost invariably what you are likely to get, unless you consort with poachers in New Zealand and they give you some of the paua they pry from the ocean floor with stealth and special iron tools. Abalone delicious
It has been estimated that in the 1960's, poachers were responsible for approximately 20,000 lion deaths per year in Serengeti National Park.
There are only 2,000 of the bears remaining, and they're threatened by hunters, poachers and habitat destruction.
Gray struck in the final minute at Turf Moor with a poacher's finish to wrap up the seventh away win and send City soaring three places to 15th.
A clampdown on salmon poachers in North Yorkshire has been announced following reports of an increase in numbers of fish returning to the rivers.
Bean is the classic gamekeeper turned poacher. Times, Sunday Times
The conservancy employs 55 scouts to check on the rhinos' whereabouts and to catch poachers.
Both Shearer and Larsson are more predators than goal poachers.
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.
Always seeking and finding the right poacher's positions, but starved of the right supply. Times, Sunday Times
The elephant population alone dropped by more than 80 percent as poachers hunted them for ivory.
And now the birds must contend with the poachers. Times, Sunday Times
Prevent discoloration in the bottoms of double boilers or egg poachers by adding 1 teaspoon vinegar to the water in the bottom pan.
The aim of the trip was to see the Great White shark in its natural environment, and to learn more about the species and the poachers and fishermen who hunt it for trophies or for their fins.
He might have writ himself _armigero_ in many a bill, or obligation, or quittance, or what not; he might have left something behind him save unpaid tavern bills; he might have heard cases, harried poachers, and quoted old saws; and slept in his own family chapel through sermons yet unwrit, beneath his presentment, done in stone, and a comforting bit of Latin: but he is dead long since. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
Basically, this surcharge will be added to any fines that are imposed by the tickets the poacher has received if the animal he/she has poached is a "trophy" animal. PA To Crack Down On Poachers
Goal Poacher - Dribbles to break past the defensive line.
The government has lost control of the eastern parts of the country and poachers freely hunt down elephants for their ivory.
North Lancashire's wild deer population could have been reduced by as many as 40 animals, gamekeepers have told police officers attempting to snare poachers.
The company also put men to work guarding the sanctuary against poachers and building schools for the children to meet another local need.
Meanwhile the poachers had time to gather up their nets and other implements used in the pursuit of their nefarious occupation.
They caught five poachers, equipped with modern rappelling gear, in possession of six bags of bird nests.
He knew that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher.
Poachers had reclaimed it as a hide and then a watercolourist had sheltered in it from a heath-fire because the mud walls were thick as a flameproof blanket.
Dried and sold as an aphrodisiac and cure-all in Asia, Russia, and North America, bear gall has long been treasure for poachers.
But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper.
The scouts usually catch five or six poachers a month as well as confiscating thousands of snares.
The inhabitants of Headington Quarry claimed old-established poachers ' rights on the strip of woodland which bordered the stream. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
In the mid-1990s, when poachers shot three adult bears and two cubs near a garbage dump and cut out their gallbladders, scientists used the timing of blowflies hatching on the dead cubs to tie two suspects to the scene of the crime.
A poacher is a thief, pure and simple and I know absolutely no one who wishes to be around a thief. Kentucky Man Faces Stiff Poaching Penalties
Here on this former hunting preserve, Galvez and her colleagues are carefully monitoring nests and patrolling against poachers.
The poacher is the sealing schooner Mary Thomas, hunting the seal pack along the coast of Japan and north of the Bering Sea, running into a heavy fog, and unwittingly crossing the line "where the Russian bear kept guard" with 1,500 seal skins in salt piles in the hold. “The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
He met many farmers, poachers and bullterrier-loving miners, who taught him his natural history in the field. Times, Sunday Times
They argue that modern ivory is often passed off as antique and that poachers need to be sent an unambiguous message that ivory has no commercial value. Times, Sunday Times
For two decades poachers have slaughtered chiru by the thousands for their wool, which is finer and more expensive than cashmere.
I dont understand putting fines on poachers who poach deer or turkey or pheasant, but not on someone who poaches squirrel, rabbit, or other game. Fining Poachers Based On Boone and Crockett Scores
That was then and now is now, when younger and more-tender farmed abalones are almost invariably what you are likely to get, unless you consort with poachers in New Zealand and they give you some of the paua they pry from the ocean floor with stealth and special iron tools. A New Shell Game
He's a gamekeeper turned poacher. Times, Sunday Times
Talk about a gamekeeper turned poacher. The Sun
Later that day, when Galster learns that Sompong is still paying off the vig to his old boss, he quickly and quietly sends the reformed poacher an envelope with enough cash to cover the debt.
Briefly considered buying an egg poacher but then I tried Carla's recipe for scrambled eggs.
In just one decade, poachers have hunted the species to near extinction.
Pah! the reminiscences of the horrid black-hole of a place in which we soldiers were confined; of the wretched creatures with whom I was now forced to keep company; of the ploughmen, poachers, pickpockets, who had taken refuge from poverty, or the law (as, in truth, I had done myself), is enough to make me ashamed even now, and it calls the blush into my old cheeks to think I was ever forced to keep such company. The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Poachers in search of antlers prey on red deer.
He was also a very brave player and a real goal poacher inside the box.
Anyone trying to take fish during the close season is breaking the law, and the agency is warning that fisheries enforcement teams armed with high tech equipment will be patrolling known hotspots to protect the fish from poachers.
It is being bottle fed milk alongside three others rescued at four days old after their mum was killed by poachers. The Sun
Don't take chancy shots, don't blast away at running deer 400 yards away, if you must use "BUCKSHOT" please be close and if you see poachers-TURN THEM IN! Crippled Deer
For years conservationists have fought to protect South Africa's elephants from poachers and hunters, but now it seems that they may have been too successful.
Poachers illegally trade in snakes such as the Indian python, slaughtering the snake for their skin.
The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game.
His long, thin frame, coupled with his blistering pace and clinical finishing, make him the ideal counter-attacking striker and all-purpose goal poacher.
The ace poacher, who has scored two goals in two games in City's promising start to the new campaign, reckons it is a pressure the team has to get used to.
Since his days as a militant student, he has cut his hair, put on a suit and is now the classic example of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
Endangered species need to be kept secure from poachers.
Bean is the classic gamekeeper turned poacher. Times, Sunday Times
I wonder if they can do anything to control the poachers though, as the conch is a marine dweller.
If one good thing comes of his senseless death it would be to give a jolt to the war on poachers. The Sun
But court records show how poachers violated wildlife laws without fear of punishment in his courtroom.
A tiger was found with a steel trap sunk into its forepaw, and a week later, the park was closed and more than 40 poachers arrested.
The army and police have been called in to conservation areas and national parks to defend the animals, but it is alleged that some soldiers turn poachers themselves.
After dividing into smaller groups, the poachers set fires to flush out animals, then shoot them and smoke the meat.
I don'tbstand with a poacher butthe numbers need to be thinned. Wisconsin Wolf Poacher Gets $2,500 Fine
An unidentified poacher opened fire on the leopardess with the bullet hitting her in the back, WWF representatives said in a statement.
It was a real poacher's goal - one that roused the crowd and the home side. Times, Sunday Times
He was rather fleshy than muscular and a stranger would scarcely suppose that he had either the activity or the inclination for a poacher's life.
Who better than a poacher turned gamekeeper to sort these deals out. Times, Sunday Times
Months later, the dragnet still had not turned up the poachers who had left an indelible mark on such a severely endangered species: for the Asian elephant, the loss of five animals is grave.
Talk about a gamekeeper turned poacher. The Sun
He was determined not to let poachers get to the eggs.
Coming to a clearing's edge, they caught sight of the poacher in the distance.
Such vehicles help the Coast Guard handle hostage situations at sea and take on pirates, poachers of marine wealth, smugglers and anti-national elements, an official said.
Manager Warnock felt his side deserved to win but admitted that they were beaten by the assured touch of a seasoned poacher.
With the village jobs program in place, many of the former poachers and other villagers became beekeepers, fish farmers, millers, or sunflower-press operators.
A case of gamekeeper turned poacher? Times, Sunday Times
They are often run by former council officers who have gone from gamekeeper to poacher and now advise businesses on how to win approval for their projects. Times, Sunday Times
York marks the diminutive poacher's 13th club in a 13-year career that has taken him the length and breadth of England and Scotland.
They are all good players and all have their different strengths but we just haven't had an out and out poacher since Stuart Barlow left.
An old poacher makes the best keeper.
Ten years ago, when he first started patrolling his village beach for turtle poachers, he was chasing a few of them on his rickety old bike when they clotheslined him.
When pheasants were worth £2.00 - £3.00 they were targeted by poachers, armed with air rifles and catapults, during the winter months.
They were bred for gamekeepers who would use the dog to catch poachers.
The conservancy employs 55 scouts to check on the rhinos' whereabouts and to catch poachers.
Tanzania has lost almost two thirds of its elephants to ivory poachers over the past five years in what conservationists have called a'catastrophic decline '. Times, Sunday Times
Baby gibbons are extremely cute, cuddly and adorable and extremely attractive to poachers and black marketers.
How often I heard the stories of the poachers, pronounced poochers, who netted the river for salmon to the disgust of the rod-men and the local boatmen.
African poachers use them to thin wildlife populations and defend their illegal trade against antipoaching patrols, which carry Kalashnikovs, too. The Gun
They were rescued after their mother was killed by poachers. Times, Sunday Times
Endangered species need to be kept secure from poachers.
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.
Over the years her customers included Free French sailors, a poacher who kept a 12-bore tied to his bicycle crossbar, the writer John Wyndham and a dog that smoked a pipe.
And the poachers were carrying at least two heavy tusks. Times, Sunday Times
I often come down this lane at night, slowly, in case a badger is scurrying into the bank or a hare making off for the open fields, and in the early autumn the steep perspective here gives the full moon the look of an enormous poacher's lantern hanging up in the trees. Coming Home
Once nearly wiped out by poachers who made shawls from its wool, the chiru's numbers have increased in recent years, and the knobby-kneed bovid has emerged as a symbol of China's environmental-protection efforts. China Eats Crow
The slender youth, groom or poacher — he might answer for either — with his short coat and gaitered legs, was sitting on a low horizontal bough, with his shoulder against the trunk. Uncle Silas
Tommy succeeds in protecting the lynx until a poacher begins to hunt the wild cat, sending both Tommy and his protégé fighting for their lives.
There is also a photo on that same page (of my photofile) of a Kansas game warden holding the antlers of a monster shot at night by a poacher using a nightscope on a Browning BAR Alleged Father-and-Son Poachers Charged With Killing 26-Point Giant
A fossil poacher has invaded the reservation, and because he's stolen certain bones and threatened to kill if he isn't shown more, the world is out of kilter and creeks are drying up. Stephanie Woodard: Wham! Pow! The CDC Goes to Comic-Con
The kiley is thrown into flights of wild-fowl and cockatoos, and with the dow-uk, a short heavy stick, they knock over the smaller kinds of game much in the same manner that poachers do hares and rabbits in England. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
The Steelmen's most reliable poacher coolly slotted into an empty net from an acute angle to claim his 13th strike of the campaign.
Strategically located anti-poaching camps that serve as excellent deterrents to poachers and smugglers are indispensable in all our national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.
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.
For two decades poachers have slaughtered chiru by the thousands for their wool, which is finer and more expensive than cashmere.
It condemned the dredging and embankment of the Joumine and Malah canals which dry out the marshes, encourage halophyte growth and access by poachers, and recommended a visitor center and cleaning up pollution from the hammams. Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia
Since Viagra gets it up more reliably than powdered horn, Asia has made a quick switch, and poachers have lost market share.
While the initial burst of pace might have gone, the poacher's instinct has not. The Sun
Russian poachers catch them illegally to harvest their expensive caviar.
While the cups of the egg poacher can also be made of stainless steel, it is most important to find one with non-stick cups for the eggs.
A poacher would neither understand, nor care… vile, filthy, treacherous and thieving creatures of the night they are.
Stopping these poachers isn't just about saving elephants and rhinos. The Sun
I think a poacher is more likely to shoot a buck if he know's his taxidermist will mount it w/o a tag, so he's an accessory. Mounting Poached Bucks...
The poacher is in the same category, but he is also stupid, because he is stealing from himself -- he is cutting off his own nose. If You're Too Busy To Go FishingYou're Too Busy
The conservation officer is very pragmatic: she supports legalized and controlled hunting, but abhors poachers.
As a side benefit I am sure the bridge will also be a boon to fishermen and will be lined every night with salmon poachers slinging their hooks into the racing tide.
As Erian had said, just as the ocelot ran off into the forest the poachers came at him, four of them.
Like James the First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Waverley — Volume 1
He believes Chinese ivory dealers are entrenched in Africa, dealing directly with the poachers to supply China with high volumes of moderately priced ivory.
Lightly grease two silicone egg poachers with olive oil. The Sun
Adrian Nye also bagged a brace with a couple of poacher's goals.
His long, thin frame, coupled with his blistering pace and clinical finishing, make him the ideal counter-attacking striker and all-purpose goal poacher.
If one good thing comes of his senseless death it would be to give a jolt to the war on poachers. The Sun
The giant panda has become highly endangered, threatened by illegal logging and poachers in its Chinese habitat.
Two typical late poacher's goals in quick succession from Luke Beckett, and Barlow's superb volley eight minutes from time earned Stockport an amazing point.
The 29-year-old has never been a prolific goal scorer but makes an ideal partner for a poacher.
Dave Hartnett was once described as the taxman's gamekeeper, but he may be viewed more as a poacher by tax havens trying to keep account holders 'details out of his range. The most recent articles from Accountancy Age
I think Ontario Honker said it best: A poacher is a poacher. Would you Report Illegal Wolf Kills?
Because poachers had obviously selected individuals for their tusks, the percentage of the elephants remaining without tusks had greatly increased.
Poachers also sell bear paws as food and fur for clothing or rugs.
Poachers have decimated the chiru populations to supply the black market trade in shahtoosh, which is among the world's most expensive wools and is 25 percent finer then cashmere.
A poacher is not going to follow the rules and report something unless it's a monster. Whats up with the new online game checking system
In the Forest of Dean poaching was rife, and there were frequent violent clashes between keepers and poachers.
Some fully-grown carp, prized by anglers, can be sold for up to £5,000 by poachers.
And now the birds must contend with the poachers. Times, Sunday Times
They are all local tribes people and former poachers - so no one knows better than them the motivation and methods of those who plunder the sanctuary for animals and plants.
Like James the first, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and, excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying ` ` there were mair fules in the laird's ha 'house than Davie Gellatley,' ' The Waverley
Since then, there has been scant cause for the big beasts to return, either as poachers or as game. Times, Sunday Times
They wander off on their own, they blow up a poacher's shack for no apparent reason, and they attempt to confront their wily antagonists head on.
Federal game wardens in airplanes patrolled the flock constantly looking for poachers and game wardens in four wheel drives patrolled the boundary on the ground. What's the most illegal thing you've ever done while hunting? please share. also please include why you did it. no minuses guys.
However, failure to catch any poachers has led police to believe that an organised gang is behind the apparent drop in wild deer numbers.
He was a poacher turned gamekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
The animals hunt alone at night and the poachers who kill them leave little sign of their remains. The Sun
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.
In the 1970s the poachers came with long spears. Times, Sunday Times
If orphaned cubs don't die of cold or hunger, they may be sold as pets or circus animals by hunters or poachers.
Contains a poisonous active principle, picrotoxin; used to adulterate beer, and by poachers to stupefy fish. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Some companies turn from poacher to gamekeeper in quite dramatic fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Biologists estimated that there were no more than 250 Siberian tigers left in the wild; dozens were being killed each year by poachers who hunted on foot, by car, and by helicopter.
These elephants are relatively secure from poachers.
He was a poacher turned gamekeeper. Times, Sunday Times
Central Africa's lowland gorilla populations suffer from steady habitat loss, capture and killing by poachers, and the cross fire of civil wars within their range.
Poachers illegally trade in snakes such as the Indian python, slaughtering the snake for their skin.
That would be partly because a lot of landowners are killing hares to keep lurchers and poachers off their land.
Poachers in search of antlers prey on red deer.
Sherwin, prosecuting, said the two thieves pretended to be poachers as they spied out the land for future thefts.
Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are only native to a small area that straddles the border between North and South Carolina, and they are falling victim to poachers, habitat destruction, and wildfire suppression. Carnivorous Plants Dwindling Across U.S. From Poaching And Habitat Destruction
The poachers hunted rhinos into local extinction by the late 1980s.
Lightly grease two silicone egg poachers with olive oil. The Sun
These warreners would live in fortified lodges, usually built on high areas within a warren, so that they could keep a look out for poachers.
These elephants are relatively secure from poachers.

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