perch

1. an object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar.

   the budgerigar shuffled along its perch

1. (of a bird) alight or rest on something.

   a herring gull perched on the rails

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

noun

an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.

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

1. a measure of length, especially for land, equal to a quarter of a chain or 5 1/2 yards (approximately 5.029 m).
2. a measure of area, especially for land, equal to 160th of an acre or 30 1/4 square yards (approximately 25.29 sq. metres).

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