Definition of sleeper

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

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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
Slumberer :: Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..
Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law..
Tetard :: Tetard (n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear..
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..
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