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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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