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noun

Sleeper n.

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

That which lies dormant, as a law. (Obs.)

A sleeping car. (Colloq. U.S.)

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

(Zool.)

(a)

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

(b)

A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

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

(a)

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.

(b)

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

(c)

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

(d)

(Naut.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

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"Sleeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... upstairs on Nan's bed. All the girls had to go and look at him; and when Dolly picked him up, and bundled his cloak about him, and put on his cap, he only stretched a little and settled himself, being as famous a sleeper as some of his Dutch ancestors. But the girls had to kiss him; and then he did wake up and laugh and rub his eyes with his fat fist. Before Stephen had him settled on his shoulder, ...

— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas

... a light sleeper, and if awakened would probably forbid him to go out before morning. So Jim opened his bedroom door so softly that not the slightest noise was caused. He went down the stairs as if he were a real burglar in rubber shoes. He stopped several times with a faster beating heart, for ...

— The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters • Edward S. Ellis

... wheat its head, Heavy with dreams, as that with bread: The goodly grain and the sun-flushed sleeper The reaper ...

— Poems • Francis Thompson

... that of sleeping in the house of God; a scorner may listen to truth and reason, and in time grow serious; an unbeliever may feel the pangs of a guilty conscience; one whose thoughts or eyes wander among other objects, may, by a lucky word, be called back to attention: But the sleeper shuts up all avenues to his soul: He is "like the deaf adder, that hearkeneth not to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." And, we may preach with as good success to the grave that ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IV: - Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church, Volume II • Jonathan Swift

... in the two bedrooms, which, old and new, amounted to five; after which, Harry slipped down into the hall, and brought up the two clothes-brushes, and these they carefully arranged upon the bed, all on one side of the sleeper. They next screwed up the corner of a handkerchief, and began to tickle him on the side farthest from the brushes. The first application of the tickler produced an impatient rub; the second, an irritable scratch; ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

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