Poach vs Seller - What's the difference?
poach | seller |
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.
Someone who sells; a vender; a clerk
Something which sells
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 seller is
an english and scottish topographic surname, derived from either of several places named sell.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
*seller
English
Etymology 1
From (sell) + (-er).Noun
(en noun)- Alisha was a seller of fine books.
- Two of the books Alisha authored had become banner sellers .