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poacher
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun poacher has 3 senses
- poacher(n = noun.person) Array - someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another; Array is a kind of appropriator
- poacher(n = noun.artifact) Array - a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs); Array is a kind of cooking utensil, cookware, vessel
- poacher(n = noun.animal) sea poacher, sea poker - small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters; Array is a kind of scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
Derived form verb poach1
Derived form verb poach2
is a member of agonidae, family agonidae
has particulars: agonus cataphractus, armed bullhead, pogge, alligatorfish, aspidophoroides monopterygius
CIDE DICTIONARY
poacher, n.
- One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law. [1913 Webster]
- The American widgeon. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
poacher
body snatcher, booster, chicken thief, con man, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, ganef, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcener, larcenist, lifter, peculator, petty thief, pilferer, prowler, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shoplifter, sneak thief, stealer, swindler, thief, white-collar thiefROGET THESAURUS
poacher
Thief
N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.
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