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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.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..

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

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