NOUN
- a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
- a person situated on a perch
How To Use percher In A Sentence
- More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
- They bring out the calandrias and the Percheron horses, which are only used in parades, never in charreadas. Dia del Charro 2007
- First, he is arrested for the murder of the actress, the percheron having been found tethered outside her apartment building.
- Men in black pants and suspenders with white shirts guide plows through the earth by the power of four dark grey Percheron horses. Mark Cassello: Can America Return to an Indigenous Economy?
- Then, there is the little brown creeper which never perches and is forever creeping, creeping, upward, upward -- save, of course, when it takes to wing -- and yet its toes are arranged in the normal percher style, the hind digit having an especially long, curved claw. Our Bird Comrades
- The other was a big, coarse-headed horse, much larger than any modern wild horse, and kin to the then existing giant horse of Texas, which was the size of a percheron. VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
- Crovax crushed the percher to a bloody pulp in his hand and threw the remains on the dying Tharvello. Nemesis
- Snotty young otter told us we'd find you here, " the other Percheron declared gruffly. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
- Your true specimen of manuscript reader is the faithful old percheron who is content to go on, year after year, sorting over the literary pemmican that comes before him, inexhaustible in his love for the delicacies of good writing, happy if once or twice a twelve-month he chance upon some winged thing. Shandygaff
- In the same way he looked on when Jerry fought fearful comic battles with Norman Chief, the great Percheron stallion. CHAPTER XXXV