Percher
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who fishes for perch.
- 2 One that perches.
- 3 An inspector of cloth before finishing.
- 4 A large candle, especially on an altar
- 5 a person situated on a perch wordnet
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- 6 A bird that is perching or that regularly perches.
"Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators."
- 7 Any of various tropical and temperate dragonflies of the genus Diplacodes.
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More examples"Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From perch (“a kind of fish”).
Etymology 2
From perch (verb).
Etymology 3
From perch (“a device over which cloth is suspended for inspection”).
Etymology 4
From Middle English percher; equivalent to perch (“bar to support a candle”) + -er.