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