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Sleeper   /slˈipər/   Listen
noun
Sleeper  n.  
1.
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
2.
That which lies dormant, as a law. (Obs.)
3.
A sleeping car. (Colloq. U.S.)
4.
(Zool.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
5.
(Zool.)
(a)
A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
(b)
A nurse shark. See under Nurse.


Sleeper  n.  Something lying in a reclining posture or position. Specifically:
(a)
One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
(b)
One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story. (U.S.)
(c)
(Naut.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
(d)
(Naut.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.





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"Sleeper" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Nothing very interesting. Special sleeper, some convention crowd for Bridgeport, came in on the north branch. We've got to pick our way ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman
... had returned to the side of the sleeper, and employed himself snapping at the greedy flies, yapping impatiently to keep them ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... in vain! that sleeper never woke. His murderer fled, but on his brow was fixed A stain which baffled wear and washing. As he fled A voice pursued him to the wilderness: ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... Primrose, 'I never saw such a sleeper. He'll be sound asleep, sound and fast; not dreaming nor stirring; and if there comes the least little sound that there oughtn't to be, he's up and broad awake and in possession of all ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... again in a most business-like way, lay down, pulled a blanket up round his ears, turned his back to the light and was presently breathing with the sweet and steady regularity of a perfectly sound and sincere sleeper. ...
— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance


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