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Poach [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be trodden with deep tracks, as soft ground. We say, the ground is soft in spring, and poaches badly.

2. Chalky and clay lands burn in hot weather, chap in summer, and poach in winter.

Poach [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To boil slightly.

2. To dress by boiling slightly and mixing in a soft mass.

3. To begin and not complete.

4. To tread soft ground, or snow and water, as cattle, whose feet penetrate the soil of soft substance and leave deep tracks.

5. To steal game; properly, to pocket game, or steal it and convey it away in a bag.

6. To steal; to plunder by stealth.

7. They poach Parnassus, and lay claim for praise.

8. To stab; to pierce; to spear; as, to poach fish.

Poach [Verb and noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.

Poach [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

2. To become soft or muddy.

Poach [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.

2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything.

3. To make soft or muddy by trampling

4. To begin and not complete.

Poachard [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. POACHARD

2. POACHED, participle passive Slightly boiled or softened; trodden with deep footsteps; stolen.

Poachard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.

2. The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.

Poached [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Poacher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that steals game.

Poacher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

2. The American widgeon.

Poachiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wetness and softness; the state of being easily penetrable by the feet of beasts; applied to land.

Poachiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Poaching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Poachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wet and soft; such as the feet of cattle will penetrate to some depth; applied to land or ground of any kind.

Poachy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land