Poaching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POACHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water
• cook by simmering in a small amount of liquid
• take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way
• (in ball games) take a shot that a partner or teammate would have expected to take
• (of an animal) trample or cut up (turf) with its hoofs
• (of land) become sodden by being trampled
• illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection
NOUN:
• cooking in simmering liquid
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to trespass for the purpose of taking game or fish

Words related to POACHING

poach12 poached15 poaches14

Words that contain POACHING

poachings17 antipoaching20

How to use POACHING in a sentence

• Suppose he should turn into a water-baby! But he lay quite still at the bottom of the pool, and never went poaching salmon any more.
• I was poaching on your preserves, and you wanted to get rid of me.
• Poaching is one of the things punishable with death, and even if any woman is caught hunting for food in another country she is seized and punished.
• I wondered, however, at the lack of poaching enterprise in a district so near to Cahors.
• At the office there were daily hunting trips, as I went on poaching for angles and words from the alphabet forest.
• I had been watched, by her orders, and a charge of poaching was instituted against me.
• He had come out with one of the later drafts, and nobody knew the cause of his enlisting, but it was supposed to be some poaching trouble at home.
• Year after year the friends lived their silent life, dividing their time between fishing, poaching, and drinking.
• No crime worse than poaching was ever brought home to him, and, as he left the seafaring life, the unpleasant memory of him soon died away.
• And all this Inter-Solar man would do now was to bow out and try poaching elsewhere.
• Dick, the cow-man, whom we had long suspected of poaching, exposed himself very sadly, when the ale was in him, by relating a number of poaching tricks I had never heard before.
• John Murray, Donald Craig, and James Parkes, charged with poaching.
• Benjamin Storey, Thomas Brammer, and Samuel Wilcock, charged with poaching.
• Carrington sent for the Terror and talked to him very seriously about this poaching.
• In the end he gave him the choice of giving his word to snare no more pheasants, or of having his mother informed that he was poaching.
• Dangerfield were informed of his poaching, she would forbid him to set another snare for anything.
• Assuredly the farmer would prosecute Sir James, if he caught him poaching.
• Doubtless that keeper would, from the abstract point of view, regard poaching with abhorrence.
• They avoid poaching, knowing that the sporting gentlemen would be severe against them, and that they would not be permitted to remain in the lanes and commons near villages.
• Men will neither credit my success nor lament my failure, because they will consider me poaching on their manor.
• Hearing the report of a gun one morning, he rode through the bushes and saw his poaching friend just shoving off in a canoe.
• Immediate steps should certainly be taken to punish and prevent poaching, or this band, the only really wild one on the continent, will soon be extinct.
• Wood stealing and poaching were every-day occurrences, and in the numerous fights which ensued each one had to seek his own consolation if his head was bruised.
• You may remember that I caught your brothers poaching on my ground, and you came to me to beg them off.
• Most of the cases relating to the stealing of oaks and brushwood and to poaching matters generally are compounded for.
• He began to think more seriously than he had ever yet done, and grew to abhor poaching, not merely from fear but from principle.
• We shall soon see whether poaching Giles always got off so successfully.
• She was transported much about the same time that her husband Giles lost his life, in stealing the net from the garden wall, as related in the second part of Poaching Giles.
• I thought it was some poaching fellow hiding there, and went up to dislodge him.
• Our chief ideas about the wood are connected with poaching.
• He could not quite bring himself to give up the idea of some day renewing his former habits of aiding the smugglers, and of doing a bit of poaching.
• Since the passing of the Game Act, poaching has enormously increased.
• I am thoroughly convinced that, in the neighbourhood in which I reside, poaching has increased threefold since the passing of the present Act.

Similar words containing POACH without suffix ing

poach12 poachy16 poached15 poacher14 poaches14 poachers15 poachier15 poachable18 poachiest16 poachings17 poachiness17 antipoaching20 poachinesses19

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