- a person or thing that sleeps.
- a heavy horizontal timber for distributing loads.
- Building Trades.
- any long wooden, metal, or stone piece lying horizontally as a sill or footing.
- any of a number of wooden pieces, laid upon the ground or upon masonry or concrete, to which floorboards are nailed.
- a sleeping car.
- something or someone that becomes unexpectedly successful or important after a period of being unnoticed, ignored, or considered unpromising or a failure: The play was the sleeper of the season.
- merchandise that is not quickly sold because its value is not immediately recognized.
- one-piece or two-piece pajamas with feet, especially for children.
- bunting3.
- a sofa, chair, or other piece of furniture that is designed to open up or unfold into a bed; convertible.
- a globule that forms at the inner corner of the eye, especially during sleep, from the accumulated secretion of the glands of the eyelid.
- any of several gobioid fishes of the family Eleotridae, of tropical seas, most species of which have the habit of resting quietly on the bottom.
- a spy; mole.
- a juvenile delinquent sentenced to serve more than nine months.
- a pin that is hidden from view by another pin.
- a timber or beam laid in a railroad track, serving as a foundation or support for the rails; tie.
- a person, animal, or thing that sleeps
- a railway sleeping car or compartment
- one of the blocks supporting the rails on a railway track
- a heavy timber beam, esp one that is laid horizontally on the ground
- a small plain gold circle worn in a pierced ear lobe to prevent the hole from closing up
- a wrestling hold in which a wrestler presses the sides of his opponent's neck, causing him to pass out
- an unbranded calf
- any gobioid fish of the family Eleotridae, of brackish or fresh tropical waters, resembling the gobies but lacking a ventral sucker
- a person or thing that achieves unexpected success after an initial period of obscurity
- a spy planted in advance for future use, but not currently active
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