Poaching
Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
Poaching was once performed by impoverished peasants for subsistence purposes and to supplement meager diets. It was set a ...
is illegal hunting or fishing.
Poaching, poacher, or poach may also refer to:
Food
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Poaching (cooking)
Poaching is a cooking technique that involves heating food submerged in a liquid, such as water, milk, stock or wine. Poaching is differentiated from the other "moist heat" cooking methods, such as simmering and boiling, in that it uses a relativ ...
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Lincolnshire Poacher cheese, a cheese from the United Kingdom
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The Lincolnshire Poacher
Sport
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Poach (pickleball), a type of shot in the sport of pickleball
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Poaching (snowboarding), snowboarding at a resort where snowboards are explicitly prohibited.
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Poaching (tennis), when a doubles player aggressively moves across the court to volley a ball intended for their partner.
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Poacher 21, an American sailboat design
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Goal poacher, in association football
Other uses
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''Poacher'' (film), a 2018 British-Kenyan film
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Poacher (fish), a family (Agonidae) of fish
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Mate poaching in animals, seduction of an animal who has already established a bond with another creature
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Human mate poaching
Seduction has multiple meanings. Platonically, it can mean "to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty", or "to lead astray, usually by persuasion or false promises".
Strategies of seduction include conversation and sexual scripts, paralingual ...
, in human infidelity
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Poacher Line
The Grantham–Skegness line, originally promoted as the "Poacher Line", runs for between Grantham and Skegness in Lincolnshire, England. Trains on this route originate from Nottingham via the Nottingham to Grantham Line as an hourly through se ...
, a railway line in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
See also
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Antipoaching, an anti-competitive business practice
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