poaching
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Poach \Poach\ (p[=o]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poached}
(p[=o]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Poaching}.] [F. pocher to place
in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it
were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See
{Pouch}, v. & n.]
1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water;
also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as
game; hence, to plunder. --Garth.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "poaching":
abstraction, annexation, appropriation, baking, barbecuing,
basting, boiling, boosting, braising, brewing, broil, broiling,
catering, conversion, conveyance, cookery, cooking, cuisine,
culinary science, domestic science, embezzlement, filching, fraud,
frying, graft, grilling, home economics, liberation, lifting,
nutrition, pan-broiling, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, roasting,
sauteing, scrounging, searing, shirring, shoplifting, simmering,
snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, steeping,
stewing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, toasting
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