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- noun Plural form of
pearch .
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Examples
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Wildlife: That hungry Kestral pearches near our feeders and scares all the other birds away.
Archive 2005-10-09 Michael Evans 2005
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Wildlife: That hungry Kestral pearches near our feeders and scares all the other birds away.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Amongst the severall kinds of fishes, trouts, pearches, loaches, and for most part, all scaly fish of brookes, and fresh rivers may well bee permitted.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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The ground being thus set according to the rate by vs experimented, an English Acre conteining fourtie pearches in length, and foure in breadth, doeth there yeeld in croppe or of come of corne, beanes, and peaze, at the least two hũdred London bushelles: besides the Macócqwer, Melden, and Planta Solis: When as in England fourtie bushelles of our wheate yeelded out of such an acre is thought to be much.
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We should be alltogether, & put our castors 'skins upon pearches, which could keepe us from the shott, which we did.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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This their place is environed with pearches which are a good distance one from an other, that they gett in the valleys where the Buffe use to repaire, uppon which they do live.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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The pearches weare putt out and planted as we received the news; the snow putt aside, and the boughs of trees covered the ground.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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English Acre conteining fourtie pearches in length, and foure in breadth, doeth there yeeld in croppe or ofcome of corne, beanes, and peaze, at the least two hûdred London bushelles: besides the 'Macócqwer,
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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English acre conteining forty pearches in length, and foure in breadth, doth there yeeld in croppe or ofcome of corne Beanes and Peaze, at the least two hundred London bushels, besides the Macocquer, Melden, and
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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_ three or four of the lustiest shoots, and the rest cut close, and bare them yearly, that the three, four or more you left, may enjoy all the sap, and so those which were spared, will be gallant pearches within two years.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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