Definition of sleeper

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

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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..
Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Slumberer :: Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
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.) 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.) A sleeping car.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear..
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.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
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