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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.

Slumberer :: Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.

Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

Tetard :: Tetard (n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) 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..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.

Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..

Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..

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