Crossword-Solution: POACHER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poacher | n. | One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law. |
| Poacher | n. | The American widgeon. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POACHER | anagram | PECHORA |
We have 17 clues for the answer “POACHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Gamekeeper's foe | 1 answer |
| small slender fish with body covered by bony plates | 1 answer |
| person who catches animals illegally on someone else's land | 1 answer |
| Stealer of game | 1 answer |
| Person hunting game illegally | 1 answer |
| One who's got game ... but shouldn't | 1 answer |
| Illegal hunter or fisherman | 1 answer |
| Illegal hunter | 1 answer |
| Illegal game hunter | 1 answer |
| Game-hunting trespasser | 1 answer |
| Game warden's target | 1 answer |
| Everglades criminal | 1 answer |
| Device for cooking eggs. | 1 answer |
| Thief of a sort | 3 answers |
| filcher | 10 answers |
| trespasser | 19 answers |
| cooking utensil | 19 answers |
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Sentences with POACHER (5)
Sometimes this obscure corner received no inhabitant for the space of two or three years, and then it was usually but a pauper, a poacher, or other sinner of undignified sins.
Either he went rabbiting in the woods, like a poacher, or he stayed in Nottingham all night instead of coming home, or he miscalculated his dive into the canal at Bestwood, and scored his chest into one mass of wounds on the raw stones and tins at the bottom.
Fair marks are they to the inner bay, the reckless poacher knows What time the scarred see-catchie lead their sleek seraglios.
That one, I remember his saying, had been set by a game-keeper in the track of a notorious poacher; but the keeper, forgetting what he had done, went that way himself, received the charge in the lower part of his body, and died of the wound.
For the brickmaker had been a notorious poacher, and was suspected, though there was no good evidence against him, of being the man who had shot a neighbouring gamekeeper in the leg.
Quotes with POACHER (3)
The poacher's murderer was a man after Archer's own heart, for Archer also didn't like men to hurt Fire or make her acquaintance.
But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a deer strung up in a snare. I never saw a poacher. They were too cunning, and for cause: the foresters would take a man's hands and eyes and leave him to the mercy of the wolves for such an offense. It was bad enough to steal the king's game, but snares were an abomnination. The gods abhor weapons that leave the hand, coward' weapons such as javelins, bows…
Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to continue my studies. I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even. So, I did it. And for three to four years, I went to university. For three times, I applied to biomedical science, to be a doctor. I didn't succeed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1954–2020).