Usually means: Elevated seat or resting place.
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  1. perch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. perch, perch, perch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perch, perch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Perch, Perch, Perch, perch, perch, perch: Wordnik
  7. perch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Perch, perch: Wiktionary
  9. perch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. perch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Perch, perch: Dictionary.com
  13. perch (1), perch (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. perch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Perch (disambiguation), Perch (equilibristic), Perch (fish), Perch (length), Perch (unit), Perch, The Perch (Binsey): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Perch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. perch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. perch: Rhymezone
  19. perch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. perch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Perch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. perch: Free Dictionary
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  24. perch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. perch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. perch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  2. The Perch, perch: Legal dictionary

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  1. The Perch, perch: Encyclopedia

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  2. perch: Idioms

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  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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  1. perch, perch, perch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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  1. Perch: Sports Definitions

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noun:  Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
noun:  Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
noun:  (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
noun:  (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
noun:  (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
noun:  (US) Kyphosus azureus
noun:  (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
noun:  Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
noun:  A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
noun:  A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
noun:  (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
noun:  (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
noun:  (dated) A linear measure of 5+¹⁄₂ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¹⁄₄ chain; the related square measure.
noun:  A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
noun:  (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
noun:  A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
noun:  (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
verb:  (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
verb:  (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
verb:  (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  a type of freshwater fish

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