sleeper
Speech parts
1. sleeper - Noun
2. sleeper - Verb
3. Sleeper - Proper noun
Meaning
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
A sleeping car.
An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
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.
One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
The net of the sleeper catches fish.