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perch

Definitions


[pəːtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar
(e.g: the budgerigar shuffled along its perch)


Phrases:
- knock someone off their perch

Origin:
late Middle English: the noun from perch; the verb from Old French percher


[pəːtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of a bird) alight or rest on something
(e.g: a herring gull perched on the rails)


Phrases:
- knock someone off their perch

Origin:
late Middle English: the noun from perch; the verb from Old French percher


[pəːtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French perche, via Latin from Greek perkē


[pəːtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a measure of length, especially for land, equal to a quarter of a chain or 51/2 yards (approximately 5.029 m)

- a measure of area, especially for land, equal to 160th of an acre or 301/4 square yards (approximately 25.29 sq. metres)
(e.g: allotment plots have traditionally been measured in an ancient Anglo Saxon term known as ‘rods’—sometimes called ‘perches’ or ‘poles’)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘pole, stick’): from Old French perche, from Latin pertica ‘measuring rod, pole’




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