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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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