poach1
  
  v.
 cook by simmering in a small amount of liquid. 
▸cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. pochier, earlier in the sense ‘enclose in a bag’, from poche ‘bag, pocket’.
 
  
    
poach2
  
  v.
   - illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.
 - take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way.
 - (of an animal) trample or cut up (turf) with its hoofs.
 
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  C16 (in the sense ‘push roughly together’): appar. rel. to poke1; sense 1 is perh. partly from Fr. pocher (see poach1).