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.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.
Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
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..
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Tetard :: Tetard (n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also 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..
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 nurse shark. See under Nurse.
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.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear..
Slumberer :: Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
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