Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Percher

Percher , noun

[From Perch, v. i.]

1.
One who, or that which, perches. — J. Burroughs
2.
One of the Insessores.
3.
A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obsolete] — Bailey