Definition of sleeper

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

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