sleeper

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This sleeper was a man of middle age, thin to emaciation and having lank, dark hair.

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  1. noun One that sleeps: a heavy sleeper who was not wakened by the burglar.
  2. noun A sleeping car.
  3. noun Children's pajamas, usually with legs that cover the feet. Often used in the plural.
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  • He was a light sleeper, and half a noise of that kind would have roused him. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
  • Gently she replaced the covering over the face of the sleeper, and silently they left the room. —  At the Time Appointed
  • I'm a sound sleeper, and hate being disturbed, but I have given him positive orders to wake me if he gets lonely and wants to talk. —  We Three
  • He even moved the candle further off, as though afraid its glare, might disturb the sleeper--forgetful that the room was now growing all bright with daybreak. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • For a few moments he surveyed the sleeper, as if calculating his chances, then he quietly dropped his plaid, took off his coat, and untying his neckcloth, laid it carefully on one side over a bush. —  Hunted and Harried
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  1. from Middle English sleeper, sleper, slepare, slæpere, from Anglo-Saxon slǣpere (= Dutch slaper = Middle Low German slaper = Middle High German slāfære, slāfer, German schaläfer), from slæpan, sleep: see sleep, v.
  2. English dial. also slaper; perhaps from Norwegian sleip, a smooth piece of timber for dragging anything over, especially used of pieces of timber employed for the foundation of a road: see slape, slab. But the word is generally regarded as a particular use of sleeper; cf. dormant, n.
 

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