POACHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poaching mean? 

• POACHING (noun)
  The noun POACHING has 1 sense:

1. cooking in simmering liquid

  Familiarity information: POACHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POACHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking in simmering liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("poaching" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

poach (cook in a simmering liquid)

 Context examples 

It was painted black, and from the talk of the hunters of their poaching exploits I recognized it as a United States revenue cutter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"A few of these caves are in national parks, but there's a lot of poaching everywhere."

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

‘Well, that’s true enough,’ said he. ‘You know, Victor,’ turning to his son, ‘when we broke up that poaching gang, they swore to knife us, and Sir Edward Holly has actually been attacked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)