poachern.¹

Brit.

/ˈpəʊtʃə/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊtʃər/

Forms: see poach v.² and -er suffix¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poach v.², -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < poach v.² + -er suffix¹.The following appears to be a slightly earlier example of this word, but the sense is unclear:c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. Aiii Suche pochers to medle, and cannot skyl Of that they do, but doth al marre and spyl.

I. Senses relating to taking game illegally.

a. A person who poaches or trespasses in pursuit of game, fish, etc.; a person who takes or kills game, fish, etc., unlawfully. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > poacher

stalker1424

poacher1574

black1722

trap-poacher1893

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > stealers of animals > [noun] > poacher

poacher1574

black1722

1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 148 Many poachers ran vp and downe y^e countrye to espye where were any olde or sicke prelate, & there-vpon poasted to Rome to purchase a graunt of his lyuing.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xix. 669 The valleyes..would be all verie thicke sprung or vnderwood, as well for the concealing of them from potchers and purloyners, as for giuing them rest and shadow in the day time.

1632 tr. G. Piatti Happines Relig. State i. vi. 36 Three nets, which the craftie poacher of mens soules, doth lay so thick, that whosoeuer escapes one, is catched in an other.

1667 J. Evelyn Publick Employm. sig. Iiii The young Potcher with his dog and kite breaking his neighbours hedges, or trampling o're his corn for a Bird not worth six-pence.

1680 T. Otway Orphan iii. 24 So Poachers basely pick up tir'd Game, Whilst the fair Hunter's cheated of his Prey.

1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court vi. 16 Ren, an old Poacher after Game, Saw Grapes look tempting Fine.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. x. 210 The Higler..was obliged to make his Peace with the 'Squire by becoming Evidence against some Poacher .

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 12 They are shot at by poachers; traced by their footsteps in the snow; caught in springs.

1815 W. Drennan Fugitive Pieces 3 Gray would prosecute as a literary poacher, the daring hand that would presume to break into his orchard, and appropriate a single epithet in that line.

1889 Academy 15 June 411 The account of pheasants being captured by poachers lighting sulphur under their roosting-trees appears very mythical.

1942 H. MacInnes Assignment in Brittany xv. 66 He remembered some of the scenes in St. Ives when the foreign poachers..started drinking in the local pubs.

1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xiv. 464 Sea turtle populations are under great pressure by hunters and poachers.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 July c8/2 CNN, long a poacher of network journalists, is about to lose one of its own.

b. In the proverbial expression an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper (and variants). So poacher turned gamekeeper (chiefly British): a person who now preserves the interests he or she previously attacked; similarly gamekeeper turned poacher.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > one who changes opinion

wheeler1836

poacher turned gamekeeper1891

mind-changer1931

gamekeeper turned poacher1978

1818 Ohio Repository 8 Jan. 4/2 As he wanted Ceylon to round off his number of villas and country seats in Asia, John [Bull] after protecting Nick Frog's farm, and putting the old poacher Louis Baboon in possession, in order to diminish his trouble also, took the little country seat in an island near Africa, called Mauritis [sic].]

1858 Times 19 Aug. 8/6 To put it on the lowest ground, as the old saying has it, ‘An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper’.

1891 Times 26 Feb. 7/5 The poacher turned gamekeeper could not be more fully alive to the responsibilities of his position than Mr. Wyndham in the character of [etc.].

1945 Times 4 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Aneurin Bevan at the Ministry of Health..is conspicuously the poacher turned gamekeeper.

1970 V. Canning Great Affair iii. 27 What the Church needed, possibly, was a good leavening of sinners in its ministry, on the principle that poachers make the best gamekeepers.

1978 Broadbent 27 Mar. 4/2 Stuart Wilson, former joint MD of Yorkshire Television..has been arguing with the ferocity of gamekeeper turned poacher against ITV's intended inroads into the fourth channel.

1999 A. Shipton Groovin' High v. 75 Jonah Jones, a poacher turned gamekeeper if ever there was one after he left the wildness of Stuff Smith for the orthodoxy of Cab.

2. North American regional. [For the presumed origin of the name see quot. 1888; compare pochard n.] The baldpate or American wigeon, Anas americana.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon)

bald-face1709

bald-pate1813

poacher1888

wheat-duck1888

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas penelope (Eurasian widgeon)

wigeon1508

winder1542

atteal1600

smeath1622

smee1668

whistling duck1699

whima1705

white-face1709

poacher1888

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 20 To some of the gunners of Detroit it is the poacher, being so called from its well-known habit of foraging upon the food for which other ducks have dived.

1905 C. C. Townsend Birds of Essex County, Mass. x. 130 The Baldpate, being unable to dive, makes use of diving Ducks to obtain food in deep water, and has therefore received in some places the name of ‘Poacher’.

1923 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 126. 96 Such behavior has earned for the baldpate the local name of ‘poacher’.

1973 Nature West Coast (Vancouver Nat. Hist. Soc.) 163 Some birds feed on sea-weeds, often snatching them from the bills of diving birds. Hence the popular name ‘poacher’.

3. A small marine fish covered in bony plates, belonging to the mainly Arctic family Agonidae; a pogge. Cf. sea-poacher n. at sea n. Compounds 6d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of family Agonidae (poacher)

poggea1672

armour-fish1747

pluck1808

sea-poacher1811

poacher1961

1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 534 C[ottus] cataphractus..Sea Poacher.]

1890 Cent. Dict. Poacher, the sea-poacher, a fish.

1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 252/2 The cold-water marine poachers and their relatives look much like some of the South American fresh-water armored catfishes.

1983 Audubon Field Guide N. Amer. Fishes 734 Poachers are often confused with juvenile sturgeons.

II. Senses relating to mixing or pulping (poach v.² II.).

4. Chiefly Papermaking. A machine for mixing ingredients into a pulp. Cf. poach v.² 7.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping

beater1825

beating-engine1825

rag engine1825

stuff engine1839

poacher1866

poaching engine1870

breaking-enginea1877

Hollander1878

breaker1880

kollergang1890

pulp stone1892

1866 Times 25 Apr. 17/5 (advt.) The [papermaking] machinery consists of..eight animal size steam boilers; three large steam poachers; 20 bleaching chests [etc.].

1871 Times 21 Aug. 9/3 Some months since a general clearance was made of cotton from the magazines, when new poachers were established.

1920 F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making (ed. 5) 134 In other cases bleaching is carried out in separate engines or ‘potchers’ provided with circulating paddles or screws, the action of which accelerates the process.

1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 157 The simplest method of bleaching..is to add the bleaching solution to the pulp in a ‘breaking engine’ or ‘potcher’.

Compounds

C1.

† poacher-court n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1786 R. Burns Poems 220 I..brought a Paitrick to the grun'... Somebody tells the Poacher-Court, The hale affair.

† poacher-herd n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love xxii. 226 It was a portentous thing to see the poacher-herd so keen on the proprieties.

† poacher work n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 767/2 ‘It was no poacher work, Matthew’, he said.

C2.

poacher's pocket n. (also poacher pocket) a large, usually concealed pocket in a jacket or coat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket

salt-box1819

slip1819

poacher's pocket1908

book pocket1922

hare-pocket1925

1908 Washington Post 22 Feb. 6/7 Most people know what a ‘poacher's pocket’ is, but how many have heard of a music pocket?

1925 G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 281 Two ‘hare’ or ‘poacher’ pockets will be found most useful on occasions.

1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xviii. 247 He took up..a manilla envelope which he zipped with care into a poacher's pocket on the inner side of his waterproof jacket.

2003 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 28 We..tramped the distance..with Heathcliff [sc. a small dog] hitching a ride in the poacher's pocket of my fishing jacket.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poacher
释义	poachern.¹ Brit. /ˈpəʊtʃə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊtʃər/ Forms: see poach v.² and -er suffix¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poach v.², -er suffix¹. Etymology: < poach v.² + -er suffix¹.The following appears to be a slightly earlier example of this word, but the sense is unclear:c1565 R. Copland Seuen Sorowes Women sig. Aiii Suche pochers to medle, and cannot skyl Of that they do, but doth al marre and spyl. I. Senses relating to taking game illegally. 1. a. A person who poaches or trespasses in pursuit of game, fish, etc.; a person who takes or kills game, fish, etc., unlawfully. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > poacher stalker1424 poacher1574 black1722 trap-poacher1893 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > stealers of animals > [noun] > poacher poacher1574 black1722 1574 J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 148 Many poachers ran vp and downe y^e countrye to espye where were any olde or sicke prelate, & there-vpon poasted to Rome to purchase a graunt of his lyuing. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xix. 669 The valleyes..would be all verie thicke sprung or vnderwood, as well for the concealing of them from potchers and purloyners, as for giuing them rest and shadow in the day time. 1632 tr. G. Piatti Happines Relig. State i. vi. 36 Three nets, which the craftie poacher of mens soules, doth lay so thick, that whosoeuer escapes one, is catched in an other. 1667 J. Evelyn Publick Employm. sig. Iiii The young Potcher with his dog and kite breaking his neighbours hedges, or trampling o're his corn for a Bird not worth six-pence. 1680 T. Otway Orphan iii. 24 So Poachers basely pick up tir'd Game, Whilst the fair Hunter's cheated of his Prey. 1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court vi. 16 Ren, an old Poacher after Game, Saw Grapes look tempting Fine. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. x. 210 The Higler..was obliged to make his Peace with the 'Squire by becoming Evidence against some Poacher . View more context for this quotation 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 12 They are shot at by poachers; traced by their footsteps in the snow; caught in springs. 1815 W. Drennan Fugitive Pieces 3 Gray would prosecute as a literary poacher, the daring hand that would presume to break into his orchard, and appropriate a single epithet in that line. 1889 Academy 15 June 411 The account of pheasants being captured by poachers lighting sulphur under their roosting-trees appears very mythical. 1942 H. MacInnes Assignment in Brittany xv. 66 He remembered some of the scenes in St. Ives when the foreign poachers..started drinking in the local pubs. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xiv. 464 Sea turtle populations are under great pressure by hunters and poachers. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 July c8/2 CNN, long a poacher of network journalists, is about to lose one of its own. b. In the proverbial expression an old poacher makes the best gamekeeper (and variants). So poacher turned gamekeeper (chiefly British): a person who now preserves the interests he or she previously attacked; similarly gamekeeper turned poacher. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > one who changes opinion wheeler1836 poacher turned gamekeeper1891 mind-changer1931 gamekeeper turned poacher1978 1818 Ohio Repository 8 Jan. 4/2 As he wanted Ceylon to round off his number of villas and country seats in Asia, John [Bull] after protecting Nick Frog's farm, and putting the old poacher Louis Baboon in possession, in order to diminish his trouble also, took the little country seat in an island near Africa, called Mauritis [sic].] 1858 Times 19 Aug. 8/6 To put it on the lowest ground, as the old saying has it, ‘An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper’. 1891 Times 26 Feb. 7/5 The poacher turned gamekeeper could not be more fully alive to the responsibilities of his position than Mr. Wyndham in the character of [etc.]. 1945 Times 4 Aug. 5/2 Mr. Aneurin Bevan at the Ministry of Health..is conspicuously the poacher turned gamekeeper. 1970 V. Canning Great Affair iii. 27 What the Church needed, possibly, was a good leavening of sinners in its ministry, on the principle that poachers make the best gamekeepers. 1978 Broadbent 27 Mar. 4/2 Stuart Wilson, former joint MD of Yorkshire Television..has been arguing with the ferocity of gamekeeper turned poacher against ITV's intended inroads into the fourth channel. 1999 A. Shipton Groovin' High v. 75 Jonah Jones, a poacher turned gamekeeper if ever there was one after he left the wildness of Stuff Smith for the orthodoxy of Cab. 2. North American regional. [For the presumed origin of the name see quot. 1888; compare pochard n.] The baldpate or American wigeon, Anas americana. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon) bald-face1709 bald-pate1813 poacher1888 wheat-duck1888 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas penelope (Eurasian widgeon) wigeon1508 winder1542 atteal1600 smeath1622 smee1668 whistling duck1699 whima1705 white-face1709 poacher1888 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 20 To some of the gunners of Detroit it is the poacher, being so called from its well-known habit of foraging upon the food for which other ducks have dived. 1905 C. C. Townsend Birds of Essex County, Mass. x. 130 The Baldpate, being unable to dive, makes use of diving Ducks to obtain food in deep water, and has therefore received in some places the name of ‘Poacher’. 1923 Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 126. 96 Such behavior has earned for the baldpate the local name of ‘poacher’. 1973 Nature West Coast (Vancouver Nat. Hist. Soc.) 163 Some birds feed on sea-weeds, often snatching them from the bills of diving birds. Hence the popular name ‘poacher’. 3. A small marine fish covered in bony plates, belonging to the mainly Arctic family Agonidae; a pogge. Cf. sea-poacher n. at sea n. Compounds 6d. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of family Agonidae (poacher) poggea1672 armour-fish1747 pluck1808 sea-poacher1811 poacher1961 1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 534 C[ottus] cataphractus..Sea Poacher.] 1890 Cent. Dict. Poacher, the sea-poacher, a fish. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 252/2 The cold-water marine poachers and their relatives look much like some of the South American fresh-water armored catfishes. 1983 Audubon Field Guide N. Amer. Fishes 734 Poachers are often confused with juvenile sturgeons. II. Senses relating to mixing or pulping (poach v.² II.). 4. Chiefly Papermaking. A machine for mixing ingredients into a pulp. Cf. poach v.² 7. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping beater1825 beating-engine1825 rag engine1825 stuff engine1839 poacher1866 poaching engine1870 breaking-enginea1877 Hollander1878 breaker1880 kollergang1890 pulp stone1892 1866 Times 25 Apr. 17/5 (advt.) The [papermaking] machinery consists of..eight animal size steam boilers; three large steam poachers; 20 bleaching chests [etc.]. 1871 Times 21 Aug. 9/3 Some months since a general clearance was made of cotton from the magazines, when new poachers were established. 1920 F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. Paper-making (ed. 5) 134 In other cases bleaching is carried out in separate engines or ‘potchers’ provided with circulating paddles or screws, the action of which accelerates the process. 1973 Materials & Technol. VI. ii. 157 The simplest method of bleaching..is to add the bleaching solution to the pulp in a ‘breaking engine’ or ‘potcher’. Compounds C1. † poacher-court n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems 220 I..brought a Paitrick to the grun'... Somebody tells the Poacher-Court, The hale affair. † poacher-herd n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1897 S. R. Crockett Lads' Love xxii. 226 It was a portentous thing to see the poacher-herd so keen on the proprieties. † poacher work n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 767/2 ‘It was no poacher work, Matthew’, he said. C2. poacher's pocket n. (also poacher pocket) a large, usually concealed pocket in a jacket or coat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > pocket salt-box1819 slip1819 poacher's pocket1908 book pocket1922 hare-pocket1925 1908 Washington Post 22 Feb. 6/7 Most people know what a ‘poacher's pocket’ is, but how many have heard of a music pocket? 1925 G. Burrard Big Game Hunting 281 Two ‘hare’ or ‘poacher’ pockets will be found most useful on occasions. 1976 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Nanny Bird xviii. 247 He took up..a manilla envelope which he zipped with care into a poacher's pocket on the inner side of his waterproof jacket. 2003 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 28 We..tramped the distance..with Heathcliff [sc. a small dog] hitching a ride in the poacher's pocket of my fishing jacket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). poachern.² Brit. /ˈpəʊtʃə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊtʃər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poach v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < poach v.¹ + -er suffix¹. A vessel or pan for poaching eggs, usually with shallow cuplike compartments in each of which an egg can be cooked over boiling water. Frequently in egg poacher. Also: a vessel or pan in which fish, etc., can be poached (cf. fish-kettle n. at fish n.¹ Compounds 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > poacher poacher1861 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxxiii. 827 For inexperienced cooks, a tin egg-poacher may be purchased. 1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 82/1 The egg may also be done in a regular egg-poacher. 1907 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily News 4 Feb. 6/1 (advt.) Up-to-date kitchen specialties... Buffalo steam poachers. 1975 J. Beard et al. Cooks' Catal. 399 Poachers come in a range of sizes for everything from a miniature mackerel to a king-sized salmon... All poachers have a common feature—a rack that protects your fish from the direct heat source beneath and enables you to lift the whole fish from the pot intact. 1992 Countryside Mar. 98/2 Also found in Catherine's kitchen is..a fish poacher from a family friend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1574n.²1861
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Compounds

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