Poach

1. v. i. To become soft or muddy.
2. v. & n. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
3. v. & n. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
4. 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.
5. v. t. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
6. v. t. To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
7. v. t. To make soft or muddy by trampling
8. v. t. To begin and not complete.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.