poacher

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A vessel or dish designed for the poaching of food, such as eggs or fish.
2. n. One who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another.
3. n. Any of various elongated marine fishes of the family Agonidae, chiefly of northern Pacific waters, having an external covering of bony plates.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who poaches; one who intrudes on the preserves of another for the purpose of stealing game; one who kills game unlawfully.
2. n. The sea-poacher, a fish.
3. n. The widgeon, Mareca americana: so called from its habit of seizing the food for which other ducks have dived.
4. n. A contrivance for poaching eggs.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches.
2. n. A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
3. n. soccer An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
4. n. Any of type of elongated fish in the Agonidae family, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
2. n. (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. The American widgeon.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another
2. n. a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)
3. n. small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters