Clues for the word "POACH"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 97 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on August 12, 2026.
Definition of poach
- v. & n. - To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
- v. & n. - To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
- v. i. - To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
- v. t. - To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.
- v. t. - To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
- v. t. - To make soft or muddy by trampling
- v. t. - To begin and not complete.
- v. i. - To become soft or muddy.
Referring Clues
- Steal
- Fish illegally
- Hunt illegally
- Simmer, as eggs
- Prepare eggs, in a way
- Rob the nest, or cook the contraband
- Take game illegally
- Pilfer
- Cop game
- Appropriate game
- One way to prepare an egg
- Trespass, as a hunter
- One way to cook
- Take what one oughtn't
- Catch unlawfully
- Take illegally
- Filch game
- Steal game
- Cook just below a boil
- Hunt game illegally
- Hunt in the wrong place?
- Catch illegally
- Cook by simmering
- One way to cook eggs
- Take badly?
- Take the wrong way?
- Cook eggs in water
- Take stock?
- Prepare eggs, e.g.
- One way to cook an egg
- Steal (game) - cook (eggs)
- Cook a chop badly
- Illicitly take a companion on river
- Cook in boiling liquid - steal game
- Hunt in the wrong spot?
- Steal and cook in some of 8
- Take game or fish for cook
- Simmer in water
- Cook in hot milk, say
- Take game or fish unlawfully
- Simmer in liquid
- Appropriate game?
- Simmer or steal
- Catch game or fish illegally
- Lure away, as a rival’s employees
- Cook in hot liquid
- Cook eggs, in a way
- Not take well?
- Eggs Benedict recipe word
- Prepare, in a way, as eggs
- Cook in simmering liquid
- Make eggs, in a way
- Take fowl foully
- Eggs Benedict recipe instruction
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - August 12, 2026
- LA Times - July 13, 2026
- New York Times - May 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 26, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 11, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 28, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2023
- New York Times - October 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 10, 2023
- Daily Quick - August 11, 2022
- New York Times - March 13, 2022
- New York Times - February 26, 2022
- Universal - November 29, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - November 13, 2017
- Netword - November 12, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2017
- Chronicle of Higher Education - October 27, 2017
- New York Times - September 29, 2017
- New York Times - September 24, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 04, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 02, 2017
- LA Times - August 05, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - June 15, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 09, 2017
- And in 67 more crossword puzzles...