poacher
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One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
The American widgeon.
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As a boy, the young Peter Wimsey was, to the great distress of his father, strongly attached to an old, smelly poacher living at the edge of the family estate.
Khanysia was severely wounded by a man-made snare set by a poacher in the lower Kruger park.
During the Tang Dynasty a small parrot ventures out to search for its mother's favourite food upon which it is captured by a poacher (parrots were quite popular during the Tang Dynasty).
Critics claim The Man with the Yellow Hat represents a colonialist poacher of European descent who kidnaps George, a native from Africa, and sends him on a ship to America.
A package poacher nabbed a sweater off the front porch of a woman’s 13th Street home on Dec. 26.
Meanwhile, Sam Seeley, the poacher, removes the meteorite he found from an old metal trunk in his garden shed and takes a closer look at it.