potch
/pɒtʃ/
verb
- 1
To thrust.
- 2
To trample.
noun
- 1
(gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
verb
- 1
To cook something in simmering liquid.
- 2
To be cooked in simmering liquid
- 3
To become soft or muddy.
- 4
To make soft or muddy.
“Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.”
- 5
To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
- 6
To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
- 7
To begin and not complete.
verb
- 1
To take game or fish illegally.
- 2
To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- 3
To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
verb
- 1
To bleach rags in paper-making.
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