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noun
a thing on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or a horizontal rod or bar in a birdcage.
(鳥の)とまり木, 長い棒, さお
a place where someone or something rests or sits, especially a place that is high or precarious:
｟くだけて｠ ; 〖通例one's ～〗 (人が座る･建物などが建つ狭くて)高い所［地位］
e.g. Marian looked down from her perch in a beech tree above the road.

verb no object, with adverbial of place
(of a bird) alight or rest on something:
〈鳥が〉 【木などに】とまる
e.g. a herring gull perched on the mast.
(of a person) sit somewhere, especially on something high or narrow:
〈人が〉 【高い所･端に】座る «on, in»
e.g. Eve perched on the side of the armchair.
(be perched) (of a building) be situated above or on the edge of something:
〈建物などが〉 «…に» 建つ «on, over»
e.g. the fortress is perched on a crag in the mountains.
with object (perch someone/something on) set or balance someone or something on (something):
e.g. Peter perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose.

PHRASES
knock someone off their perch
informal cause someone to lose a position of superiority or preeminence:
e.g. will this knock London off its perch as Europe's leading financial center?

ORIGIN
late Middle English: the noun from perch3; the verb from Old French percher.

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noun (plural same or perches)
an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
〘魚〙 パーチ〘食用の淡水魚〙
>Genus Perca, family Percidae (the perch family): three species, in particular P. fluviatilis of Europe (also called bass2), and the almost identical yellow perch (P. flavescens) of North America. The perch family also includes the pikeperches, ruffe, and darters.
used in names of other freshwater and marine fishes resembling or related to this, e.g., climbing perch, sea perch, surfperch.

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

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noun historical, chiefly British
a linear or square rod (see rod (sense 3) ).

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