Perching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERCHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a bird) alight or rest on something
• (of a person) sit on something high or narrow
• (of a building) be situated above or on the edge of something
• set or balance someone or something on
NOUN:
• a method of softening leather
• an object on which a bird alights or roosts, typically a branch or horizontal bar
• a place where someone or something rests or sits, especially one that is high or precarious
• an edible freshwater fish with a high spiny dorsal fin, dark vertical bars on the body, and orange lower fins.
• used in names of other freshwater and marine fishes resembling or related to the perch, e.g. climbing perch, pikeperch, sea perch, surfperch.
• a measure of length, especially for land, equal to a quarter of a chain or 51/2 yards (approximately 5.029 m).
• a measure of area, especially for land, equal to 160th of an acre or 301/4 square yards (approximately 25.29 sq. metres).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to sit or rest on an elevated place

Words related to PERCHING

perch12 perched15 perches14

Words that contain PERCHING

perchings17 unperching18 overperching23

How to use PERCHING in a sentence

• It is gregarious in its habits, associating in flocks of two or three hundred, delighting in marshy grounds, and at night perching upon trees, or on high situations.
• The ground under the two trees is covered with the bones of little birds and big birds that have died from perching on the trees with the golden trunks and the silver leaves.
• One day two doves perching near her asked why she cried.
• The first bird that Nat spied after they left the meadows was perching on the topmost wire of a fence by the roadside.
• And, if we should ever succeed in perching on the branches, I told her we should be safe from all wild beasts.
• The feet are not only altogether bird-like, but have the special characters of the feet of perching birds, while the body had a clothing of true feathers.
• He hopped after her and, perching on the edge of the hole, peered down into the hollow tree.
• Martyn as he lay on a sofa with all his books about him, and perching herself on his Hebrew Lexicon, which he needed every moment, but would not touch so as to disturb her.
• The little group of three pillars found at Knossos evidently represents the divinity in her aspect as a heavenly goddess, for the pillars have doves perching upon their capitals.
• Lawrence in clear weather, you might think that you saw a lonely sea gull, snow-white, perching motionless on a cobble of gray rock.
• Many of the reaches also swarmed with wildfowl, consisting almost wholly of ducks, which, from a habit of perching on the trees, have received the name of wood-ducks.
• Their perching on trees is performed in a very clumsy manner, swinging and pitching to and fro.

Similar words containing PERCH without suffix ing

perch12 perched15 percher14 perches14 unperch14 perchers15 perchery18 overperch19 perchance18 percheron16 perchings17 pikeperch22 superchic18 surfperch19 unperched17 unperches16 percheries17 percherons17 perchloric19 unperching18 supercheap19 hypercharge25 overperched22 overperches21 perchlorate18 perchloride19 pikeperches24 supercharge19 supercherie18 superchurch23 surfperches21 hypercharged27 hypercharges26 overperching23 perchlorates19 perchlorides20 supercharged21 supercharger20 supercharges20 supercheries19 hypercharging28 superchargers21 supercharging22 superchurches25 perchloroethene25 perchloroethyle28 hypercholestero28 perchloroethylene30 perchloroethylenes31 hypercholesterolemia35 hypercholesterolemic37 hypercholesterolemias36

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