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    perch
    [pərCH]
    noun
    perch (noun) · perches (plural noun)
    1. a thing on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or a horizontal rod or bar in a birdcage:
      "the budgerigar shuffled along its perch"
      • a place where someone or something rests or sits, especially a place that is high or precarious:
        "Marian looked down from her perch in a beech tree above the road"
    verb
    perch (verb) · perches (third person present) · perched (past tense) · perched (past participle) · perching (present participle)
    1. (of a bird) alight or rest on something:
      "a herring gull perched on the mast"
      • (of a person) sit somewhere, especially on something high or narrow:
        "Eve perched on the side of the armchair"
      • (be perched)
        (of a building) be situated above or on the edge of something:
        "the fortress is perched on a crag in the mountains"
      • (perch someone/something on)
        set or balance someone or something on (something):
        "Peter perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose"
    Origin
    late Middle English: the noun from perch; the verb from Old French percher.
    perch
    [pərCH]
    noun
    perch (noun) · perch (plural noun) · perches (plural noun) · yellow perch (noun) · yellow perch (plural noun)
    1. an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
      • used in names of other freshwater and marine fishes resembling or related to this, e.g., climbing perch, sea perch, surfperch.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French perche, via Latin from Greek perkē.
    perch
    [pərCH]
    noun
    historical
    perch (noun) · perches (plural noun)
    1. a linear or square rod. See rod
    Origin
    Middle English (in the general sense ‘pole, stick’): from Old French perche, from Latin pertica ‘measuring rod, pole’.
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    noun
    1. a thing on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or a horizontal rod or bar in a birdcage:
      pole
      rod
      branch
      roost
      rest
      resting place
      verb
      1. (of a bird) alight or rest on something:
        roost
        sit
        rest
        alight
        settle
        land
        come to rest
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