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

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

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

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

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

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

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.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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