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Перевод: poacher

[существительное]
браконьер ; сосуд для варки яиц без скорлупы

Тезаурус:

1. Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East (and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher's gain - so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened.
2. After four years as a VAT control officer at Customs and Excise, Parkin decided to turn from gamekeeper to poacher and joined Arthur Andersen in 1986.
3. The only stumble in the Quins surge, which brought tries for Carling, Thompson and Pears, who also landed two penalties, came when Saunders, Rugby's ace poacher, intercepted Halliday's would-be scoring pass and held off Quins' all-comers in a 90-metre sprint for the line.
4. "What I liked in the books was the free open-air life, the spice of illegality and daring, roguish characters - the opportunities so far exceeding my own, the gun, the great pond, the country home, the apparently endless leisure - the glorious moments that one could always recapture by opening the Poacher - and the tinge of sadness here and there as in the picture of the old moucher perishing in his sleep by the lime kiln, and the heron flying over in the morning indifferent."
5. Equally revealing is a rare autobiography by an impoverished Norfolk farm labourer's son, who had turned professional poacher and been disowned by his harsh father.
6. The significance of such insights was reinforced later by his reading of Jefferies' Amateur Poacher and The Story of My Heart .
7. So seriously, too, did I take myself in it, that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions - of a man, or a place, or a walk - in a manner largely founded on Jefferies' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats, and later on by Ruskin, De Quincey, Pater, and Sir Thomas Browne
8. His grandfather, who taught him songs and ballads and regaled him with tales of his own "merry" youth when he fought with gamekeepers, clearly saw the young poacher as a chip off the old block.
9. These purposeful wanderings in nearby London commons were the nearest he could come to the idealized world he had found in The Amateur Poacher .
10. To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point, which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again, whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power.
11. It was a strange step from poacher to street comer preacher, but was doubtless sincere.
12. Unable to justify the privatisation of a natural monopoly on familiar grounds such as competition and consumer choice, the government chose instead to emphasise regulation, boasting that privatisation would separate the provider from the regulator - or, to use a phrase much quoted by Mr Howard at the time, the gamekeeper from the poacher.
13. Rugby's poacher turned gamekeeper, while having twice declined England bench selection, has never lightly turned his back.