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