Poach

English Meaning

To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.

1. To cook in a boiling or simmering liquid: Poach the fish in wine.
2. To trespass on another's property in order to take fish or game.
3. To take fish or game in a forbidden area.
4. To become muddy or broken up from being trampled. Used of land.
5. To sink into soft earth when walking.
6. To take or appropriate something unfairly or illegally.
7. Sports To play a ball out of turn or in another's territory, as in doubles tennis.
8. To trespass on (another's property) for fishing or hunting.
9. To take (fish or game) illegally.
10. To make (land) muddy or broken up by trampling.
11. To take or appropriate unfairly or illegally.
12. Sports To play (a ball) out of turn or in another's territory.