Poach vs Hunt - What's the difference?
poach | hunt |
To cook something in simmering water.
* {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
, title=Death Walks in Eastrepps
, chapter=1/1 To be cooked in simmering water
* Francis Bacon
To become soft or muddy.
* Mortimer
To make soft or muddy.
(obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
(obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) To begin and not complete.
(intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
(intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
(intransitive) To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company.
To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
* Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
* Tennyson
* 2010 , Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:
To try to find something; search.
* (William Shakespeare)
* , chapter=1
, title= * 2004 , Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:
* 2011 , Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):
To drive; to chase; with down'', ''from'', ''away , etc.
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
* Addison
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).
As a verb poach
is to cook something in simmering water or poach can be (intransitive) to take game or fish illegally.As a proper noun hunt is
for a hunter (for game, birds etc).poach
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(es)citation, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.}}
- The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach .
- Chalky and clay lands chap in summer, and poach in winter.
- Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
- (Tennyson)
- (Carew)
- his horse poaching one of his legs into some hollow ground
- (Francis Bacon)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(es)Derived terms
* poachable * unpoachedAnagrams
*hunt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
- State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.
- He after honour hunts , I after love.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
- What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- He hunts a pack of dogs.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.