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1.VerbTo cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
2.VerbTo be cooked in such manner.
3.NounThe act of cooking in simmering liquid.
4.VerbTo trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
5.VerbTo take game or fish illegally.
6.VerbTo take anything illegally or unfairly.
7.VerbTo intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome."to poach in foreign academic disciplines; (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)"
8.VerbTo entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
9.VerbTo make soft or muddy by trampling."Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud."
10.VerbTo become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
11.VerbTo stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.
12.NounThe act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.