noun.
A horizontal pole or bar serving as a support for various purposes, as a perch for birds or as the ridge-pole of a tent, or used for the hanging of yarns, skins, etc., to dry, or against which sawn timber may be stacked while seasoning, etc.
An obsolete form of perch.
noun.
An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of park.
To peer; look narrowly or sharply.
To examine thoroughly.
To toss or jerk the head with affected smartness; be jaunty or pert: sometimes with an impersonal it.
To hold up smartly; prick up.
To dress; make spruce or smart; smarten; prank.
Neat; trim; smart; hence, pert; airy; jaunty; proud.