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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

... to arouse our sleeper in quest of the key, of course Dinah returned disconsolate. Greatly to my satisfaction, she stated that it was "out ob de question to try to git her eyes open. Why honey," she pursued, "ef I didn't know what a steady-goin' Christian ...

— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield

... read enough I came back here to think. I knew enough now to be sure that the Sleeper is a Roman, and the 'Heart of the Hills' a Grecian maid. She is like me. That is why I know she drove him to make an empire, choosing for a beginning these 'Hills' where Rome had never penetrated. He found her in Greece. He plunged through Persia to build a throne for her! I have ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... left in darkness, the great brute stepped gingerly about, taking care not to tread upon the two prostrate forms on the floor, until she came to the cradle. There she stooped and investigated, passing her tongue caressingly over the little sleeper's face. Then with her great clumsy paws she drew the blanket in which the baby had been wrapped about the sleeping child, and taking the loose ends in her teeth, swung it clear of the cradle and held it as though ...

— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes

... seven of the enemy. Further on they heard deep snores apparently proceeding from a dug-out immediately beneath them. Although they knew that the garrison of the trench outnumbered them they decided to procure an identification. Unfortunately in pulling out a clasp knife with which to cut off the sleeper's identity disc, one of the officer's revolvers went off. A conversation in agitated whispers broke out in the German trench, but the patrol crept safely away, the garrison ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various

... quiet, pale face. The mother had stretched out her arm upon the bed of her child. The boy had encircled her slender, white hand with both his plump hands, and held it firmly. The doctor approached and looked closer at the sleeper; he bent over her ...

— Erick and Sally • Johanna Spyri

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