Definitions for perches
perches
perch
Spelling: [purch]
IPA: /pɜrtʃ/
Perches is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 159 anagrams from letters in perches (ceehprs).
Definitions for perches
noun
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a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
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any place or object, as a sill, fence, branch, or twig, for a bird, animal, or person to alight or rest upon.
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a high or elevated position, resting place, or the like.
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a small, elevated seat for the driver of any of certain vehicles.
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a pole connecting the fore and hind running parts of a spring carriage or other vehicle.
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a post set up as a navigational aid on a navigational hazard or on a buoy.
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British.
a linear or square rod.
a measure of volume for stone, about 24 cubic feet (0.7 cubic meters).
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Textiles. an apparatus consisting of two vertical posts and a horizontal roller, used for inspecting cloth after it leaves the loom.
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Obsolete. any pole, rod, or the like.
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a former division of N France.
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any spiny-finned, freshwater food fish of the genus Perca, as P. flavescens (yellow perch) of the U.S., or P. fluviatilis, of Europe.
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any of various other related, spiny-finned fishes.
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any of several embioticid fishes, as Hysterocarpus traski (tule perch) of California.
verb (used with object)
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to set or place on or as if on a perch.
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to inspect (cloth) for defects and blemishes after it has been taken from the loom and placed upon a perch.
verb (used without object)
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to alight or rest upon a perch.
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to settle or rest in some elevated position, as if on a perch.
Origin of perches
1250-1300; Middle English perche Old French Latin pertica pole, staff, measuring rod
Examples for perches
Then we'll know he's a carp-fish, 'cause the perches and trouts haven't got feelers.
About fifty perches, your honor, in the same boreen, but higher up.
She goes and perches on the table near Mary, who is staring sadly in front of her.
He perches on the cardinal's hat and counsels bigotry and oppression.
He perches there each evening on the extreme end of the longest bough.
This is the bird which perches on the roof of the house at night and calls to-whoo.
The arrangement of perches and nesting-places may be left to the reader's judgment.
The fellow who is "it," or "keeper," perches his duck on the rock.
It has only just occurred to me that they ought to have had perches to roost on.
She reached one and then another of the perches which mark the channel into the harbour.