potch
/pɒtʃ/ · verb
Meaning
- To thrust.
- To trample.
- (gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.
- To cook something in simmering liquid.
- To be cooked in simmering liquid
- To become soft or muddy.
- To make soft or muddy.
- To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
- To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
- To take game or fish illegally.
- To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To bleach rags in paper-making.
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