SLEEPER

noun a sleeping car.

2. sleeper ·noun that which lies dormant, as a law.

3. sleeper ·noun the lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

4. sleeper ·noun an animal that hibernates, as the bear.

5. sleeper ·noun something lying in a reclining posture or position.

6. sleeper ·noun a nurse shark. ·see under nurse.

7. sleeper ·noun a large fresh-water gobioid fish (eleotris dormatrix).

8. sleeper ·noun one who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

9. sleeper ·noun one of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

10. sleeper ·noun one of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.

11. sleeper ·noun 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.