simple past tense and past participle of perch

Situated as if balancing above something.

A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird. / A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca. / (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda / (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus

(intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost. / (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something. / (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.

The act of something that perches.

(textiles) Inspection of cloth before finishing.

present participle of perch

(historical) A former province in northwestern France, corresponding to the modern departments of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perch