Sleeper

Definition:

  • (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
  • (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law.
  • (n.) A sleeping car.
  • (n.) An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
  • (n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
  • (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
  • (n.) Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
  • (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.
  • (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
  • (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
  • (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.

Compare sleeper with other words:

sleeper vs. sweeper

sleeper vs. steeper

sleeper vs. slumberer

cess vs. sleeper

longitudinal vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. substructure

cask vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. tier

goby vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. success

interval vs. sleeper

achieve vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. unexpected

railroad vs. sleeper

signal vs. sleeper

prearranged vs. sleeper

community vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. unobtrusively

sleeper vs. terrorist

sleeper vs. spy

law vs. sleeper

dormant vs. sleeper

sleep vs. sleeper

sleeper vs. tie

chair vs. sleeper