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Poacher vs Murderer - What's the difference?

poacher | murderer |

As nouns the difference between poacher and murderer

is that poacher is a person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches while murderer is a person who commits murder.

poacher

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches.
  • A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
  • (soccer) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 16 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Sunderland 1 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.}}
  • Any of type of elongated fish in the Agonidae family, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
  • (US, dialect) The American wigeon.
  • murderer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who commits murder.
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
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  • *:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer .
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * murderess