percher Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person situated on a perch
  2. noun a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
    perching bird; Insessores; order Insessores.

WordNet

Perch"er noun
Etymology
From Perch, v. i.
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, perches. J. Burroughs.
  2. One of the Insessores.
  3. From Perch a pole. A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. Obs. Bailey.

Webster 1913