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▪ I. poaching, vbl. n.1|ˈpəʊtʃɪŋ|
[f. poach v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of poach v.1
1584Cogan Haven Health cxciii. (1636) 174 [Eggs] be sodden two wayes;..the first is called seething..the second poching of egges. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Poching,..an Egg Boyled in Water out of the Shell. 1907A. Escoffier Guide Mod. Cookery ii. xiv. 292 Where the exact amount of poaching-liquor is not given, allow one-quarter pint to every four fillets. 1913J. M. Hill Pract. Cooking 69 The term poaching has come to be applied to the cooking of all articles containing eggs, either in the oven or on top of the range, in dishes that are surrounded with hot water. 1956Spry & Hume Constance Spry Cookery Bk. iv. 70 Poaching is a term used to indicate a gentler cooking still [than simmering]. 1960Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (rev. ed.) 80/2 Although this method of cooking fish is referred to as boiling, it is more accurately described as poaching, since the water should be kept only simmering, not actually boiling, while the fish is in it.
▪ II. ˈpoaching, vbl. n.2
[f. poach v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of poach v.2 a. Trampling (of land) while in a sodden condition; becoming poachy. Also concr. (poet.), a patch of mud.
1780A. Young Tour Irel. I. 116 Lands..sound enough for winter feeding without poaching. 1802C. Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 159 The parks were extremely subject to Winter poaching. 1879Amateur Poacher, The green drive shows traces of the poaching it received from the thick-planted hoofs of the hunt when the leaves were off. 1929J. Masefield Poems 703 Plastered with poachings, he rode on forsaken.
b. Trespassing in pursuit of game; taking of game or fish illegally or by unsportsmanlike methods. Also fig.
1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster iv. i, He hunts too much in the purlues, would he would leave off poaching. 1821Egan Life in Lond. II. iv. (Farmer), You shall be admitted into the preserve; but remember no poaching. 1892Athenæum 20 Aug. 246/3 He has kept free from any suspicion of..literary poaching. 1899E. H. Miles Lessons in Lawn Tennis xi. 69 The man should have no false modesty..about a certain amount of poaching. 1977World of Cricket Monthly June 68/3 The approach had come initially from Imran, and there was no question of poaching on the part of Sussex.
attrib.1832H. Martineau Homes Abroad i. 1 News of murderous poaching expeditions. 1899Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 What some consider the poaching tactics of the music-halls. 1955Times 27 May 11/6 He intimates that officers of the Transport and General Workers Union have been guilty of membership poaching offences.
c. Paper-making. See poach v.2 8; poaching or potching-engine = poacher1 3.
1877W. Arnot in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XXVI. 89/2 The bleaching or poaching engine. 1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 27 The quantities of half-stuff filled into the potching engine should at all times be as uniform as possible. |