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# poacher

«poacher» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who hunts or catches animals or fish illegally…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a poacher, poachers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who hunts or catches animals or fish illegally, often rare animals like elephants and rhinos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#m1)

2) A pan for poaching (gently cooking) eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#m2)

3) (sport) A player who scores by waiting near the goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In conservation and geography lessons, poachers kill elephants for ivory and rhinos for their horns, so rangers protect parks. In old stories, a poacher steals rabbits or deer from a rich landowner. Phrases: ivory poachers, poacher turned gamekeeper (someone who changes sides).

### examples

- Poachers killed the rhino for its horn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x1)
- Park rangers chase poachers away from the elephants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x2)
- In the story, the poor man became a poacher to feed his children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x3)
- An egg poacher cooks eggs in little cups over water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x4)
- The striker is a goal poacher who always finds space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x5)
- Dogs help sniff out poachers in Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: poach (to hunt illegally, or to cook gently in water; also to take someone from another team). Poaching wild animals is a crime in most countries.

### In the corpora

- [Dian Fossey studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda and fought against poachers who trapped them; her work helped start the protection that saved them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poacher» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poacher/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.