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单词 to poach on a person's preserves
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to poach on a person's preserves (also manor)
a. intransitive. To go in illegal pursuit of game, fish, etc., esp. by trespassing (on the lands or rights of another) or in contravention of official protection; to hunt for (also †after) game or fish in this way. Also figurative and in extended use, esp. in to poach on a person's preserves (also manor).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stealing animals > [verb (intransitive)] > poach
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > poach (land or water)
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1574 [implied in: J. Studley tr. J. Bale Pageant of Popes f. 148 Many poachers ran vp and downe ye countrye to espye where were any olde or sicke prelate, & there-vpon poasted to Rome to purchase a graunt of his lyuing. (at poacher n.1 1a)].
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pocher le labeur d'autruy, to poche into, or incroach vpon, another mans imployment, practise, or trade.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 2 They're ever poaching after Whores all the Morning.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. iii. 45 I scorn to poach for Power.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To poach,..to destroy Game by unlawful means, as by laying Snares, Gins, etc.
1718 T. Gordon Ded. to Great Man 11 He threw away his Flayl..and betook himself to poaching in the River, as a more Gentleman-like way of Life.
1733 Players: a Satire sig. B8 She poaches after hearts thro' Pit and Box; He, ogling, bargains for a Whore and P—x.
1791 H. B. Dudley Woodman iii. xv. 77 And pray, sir, who may you be—that come in this impudent, blustering manner, to poach after a part of my family?
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Jan. (1941) 13 The pettish resentment that you might entertain against one who had poachd on your manor.
1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 199 So keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakespeare poached or not.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 72 A region in which the politician feels that he is poaching on the preserves of the geographer.
1885 Standard 20 Nov. 3/8 All the owners poached for salmon.
1922 E. Pound in Dial (Chicago) June 626 In this super-novel our author has also poached on the epic.
1980 W. Percy Second Coming i. i. 19 It was Ewell McBee.., once his wife's family's gardener, who poached for deer in Barrett's ten thousand acres of mountainside.
1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 June 634/2 Leavitt has poached on the bourgeois reserve of the mini-series & the soap opera.
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