percher

From perch (“a kind of fish”).

percher (plural perchers)

1. One who fishes for perch.

From perch (verb).

percher (plural perchers)

1. One that perches.
2. A bird that is perching or that regularly perches.
   • 1999, Milton W. Weller, Wetland Birds: Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications:

     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.

3. Any of various tropical and temperate dragonflies of the genus Diplacodes.

• chalky percher
• pygmy percher
• red percher
• scarlet percher
• wandering percher

From perch (“a device over which cloth is suspended for inspection”).

percher (plural perchers)

1. (textiles) An inspector of cloth before finishing.

From Middle English percher; equivalent to perch (“bar to support a candle”) +‎ -er.

percher (plural perchers)

1. A large candle, especially on an altar

• reperch

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.ʃe/

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percher

1. to perch
2. (cinematography, sound engineering) to boom, operate a boom

• chat perché
• perchage

• perche

• “percher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• prêcher

• perchere, perchor, perchour, pierchier

From perche (“rod”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛrt͡ʃər(ə)/

percher (plural perchers)

1. A percher (kind of candle).

• English: percher

• “percher, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-09.