different between parching vs perching

English

Adjective

parching (comparative more parching, superlative most parching)

1. Capable of causing something to parch.
2. (of thirst) Extreme.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.

Verb

parching

1. present participle of parch

Noun

parching (plural parchings)

1. The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
   • 1917, Studies in the Social Sciences (issue 9, page 20)

     I have already told how we parched sunflower seed; and that I used two or three double-handfuls of seed to a parching. I used two parchings of sunflower seed for one mess of four-vegetables-mixed.

2. The condition of being parched; absolute dryness.
   • 1797, Icelandic Poetry: Or The Edda of Sæmund (page 95)

     Squalid youths with ghastly grin,
     In hollow bitter roots shall bring,
     Urine of the unsav'ry goat,
     To quell the parchings of thy throat.

English

Etymology 1

From perch.

Verb

perching

1. present participle of perch

Noun

perching (plural perchings)

1. The act of something that perches.

Etymology 2

From perch (“a rack over which cloth is suspended for inspection”).

Noun

perching (uncountable)

1. (textiles) Inspection of cloth before finishing.