Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that perches.
- noun A bird whose feet are adapted for perching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which perches; specifically, a perching bird as distinguished from birds that rest on the ground; a bird of the old order Insessores.
- noun A workman who performs the operation of perching or burling.
- noun A wax candle; especially, a large wax candle usually placed on an altar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, perches.
- noun One of the Insessores.
- noun obsolete A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who fishes for
perch . - noun One that
perches . - noun textiles An inspector of cloth before finishing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
- noun a person situated on a perch
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crovax gave the percher a little shake, and it spoke again.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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Out came a percher, its legs and wings tied with strips of ribbon.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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Tharvello opened his hauberk and pulled out the percher he'd hidden underneath.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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Crovax crushed the percher to a bloody pulp in his hand and threw the remains on the dying Tharvello.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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After much shouting and dashing about, a percher appeared, flapping its narrow wings and blaring the message given to it.
Nemesis Thompson, Paul B. 2000
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La dsertification, l'amincissement de la couche d'ozone, la destruction de la fores tropicale, les effets pernicieux des pluies acides, autant de problmes criants sur lesquels l'humanit doit se percher avant d'arriver a un stade de dtrioration environnementale de non retour.
Chapter 1 1990
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Then, there is the little brown creeper which never perches and is forever creeping, creeping, upward, upward -- save, of course, when it takes to wing -- and yet its toes are arranged in the normal percher style, the hind digit having an especially long, curved claw.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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It would sometimes take refuge in a bush, when the lark, not being a percher, would alight upon the ground beneath it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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However, she soon gave over these attempts at intimidation, perched beside the percher, and again put something into his maw.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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Them's not legs! them's slips of gutta-percher an 'steel!
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." G.J. Whyte-Melville 1849
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