Hypertext Webster Gateway: "poached"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Poach \Poach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poached}; 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.
2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as
game; hence, to plunder. --Garth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
poached
adj : cooked in hot water [syn: {boiled}, {stewed}]
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