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poacher

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One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

The American widgeon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Source: Internet

Khanysia was severely wounded by a man-made snare set by a poacher in the lower Kruger park. Source: Internet

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). Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

A package poacher nabbed a sweater off the front porch of a woman’s 13th Street home on Dec. 26. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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