1. Someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
   "The game warden caught the poacher trapping animals out of season"
    
2. A cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
   "She gently lowered the eggs into the poacher"
    
3. Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
   "Sea poachers are well-adapted to life on the ocean floor";
   - sea poacher, sea poker

Derived forms: poachers

Type of: appropriator, cooking utensil, cookware, scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish, vessel

Part of: Agonidae, family Agonidae

Encyclopedia: Poacher