perch
noun
[ pəːtʃ ]
• an object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar.
• "the budgerigar shuffled along its perch"
perch
verb
• (of a bird) alight or rest on something.
• "a herring gull perched on the rails"
Origin:
late Middle English: the noun from perch3; the verb from Old French percher .
perch
noun
• an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French perche, via Latin from Greek perkē .
perch
noun
• a measure of length, especially for land, equal to a quarter of a chain or 5 1/2 yards (approximately 5.029 m).
• a measure of area, especially for land, equal to 160th of an acre or 30 1/4 square yards (approximately 25.29 sq. metres).
Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘pole, stick’): from Old French perche, from Latin pertica ‘measuring rod, pole’.
