Hypertext Webster Gateway: "percher"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Percher \Perch"er\, n. [From {Perch}, v. i.]
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.
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