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say it: POH-chur
poacher is a noun meaning "someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another". It carries 3 recorded senses.
someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poacher come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.