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Noun: poacher  pow-chu(r)
  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
    - sea poacher, sea poker

Derived forms: poachers

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

Part of: Agonidae, family Agonidae

Encyclopedia: Poacher