1. Cooked in hot water
   "The cook book has 99 practical methods of utilizing poached beef";
   - boiled, stewed

1. Cook in a simmering liquid
   "poached apricots"
    
2. Hunt illegally
   "people are poaching elephants for their ivory"

See also: cooked

Type of: cook, hunt, hunt down, run, track down

Encyclopedia: Poached