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a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.

any place or object, as a sill, fence, branch, or twig, for a bird, animal, or person to alight or rest upon.

a high or elevated position, resting place, or the like.

a small, elevated seat for the driver of any of certain vehicles.

a pole connecting the fore and hind running parts of a spring carriage or other vehicle.

a post set up as a navigational aid on a navigational hazard or on a buoy.

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1. a linear or square rod.

2. a measure of volume for stone, about 24 cubic feet (0.7 cubic meters).

Textiles.��an apparatus consisting of two vertical posts and a horizontal roller, used for inspecting cloth after it leaves the loom.

Obsolete.��any pole, rod, or the like.

to alight or rest upon a perch.

to settle or rest in some elevated position, as if on a perch.

to set or place on or as if on a perch.

to inspect (cloth) for defects and blemishes after it has been taken from the loom and placed upon a perch.

any spiny-finned, freshwater food fish of the genus Perca, as P. flavescens yellow perch, of the U.S., or P. fluviatilis, of Europe.

any of various other related, spiny-finned fishes.

any of several embioticid fishes, as Hysterocarpus traski tule perch of California.