0 past simple and past participle of poach
1 to cook something such as a fish, or an egg with its shell removed, by putting it in gently boiling water or other liquid:
2 to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
The public, who supported the ban, knew that ivory came from poached elephants because the sale of ivory was illegal.
We understandably felt some animosity when they poached our foster carers, as we saw it.
The main buyers of poached salmon are hoteliers and fishmongers, who buy it cheap and so make bigger profits.
Over the course of two days, 2,000 salmon were poached with the use of speedboats and taken to private dwellings.
Tame pheasants, for instance, could be stupified and poached perfectly easily because you could put them in a bag and take them away.
Is it not also slightly offensive to them to suggest that they can be poached like pheasants?
Key workers are being poached by rivals offering higher wages, fuelling the wages spiral, increasing costs and reducing competitiveness.
A person can be prosecuted if he knows, or has reason to believe, that the venison was poached.
