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S: (n) perch (support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird))
S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a linear measure of 16.5 feet)
S: (n) perch, rod, pole (a square rod of land)
S: (n) perch (an elevated place serving as a seat)
S: (n) perch (any of numerous fishes of America and Europe)
S: (n) perch (spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes)
S: (n) perch (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes)

S: (v) perch, roost, rest (sit, as on a branch) "The birds perched high in the tree"

S: (v) alight, light, perch (to come to rest, settle) "Misfortune lighted upon him"

S: (v) land, set down (reach or come to rest) "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"

S: (v) alight, light, perch (to come to rest, settle) "Misfortune lighted upon him"
S: (v) force-land (make a forced landing)
S: (v) beach (land on a beach) "the ship beached near the port"
S: (v) port (land at or reach a port) "The ship finally ported"
S: (v) disembark, debark, set down (go ashore) "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"
S: (v) touch down (come or bring (a plane) to a landing) "the plane touched down at noon"
S: (v) undershoot (fall short of (the runway) in a landing) "The plane undershot the runway"
S: (v) belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)
S: (v) crash land (make an emergency landing)