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English (of Norman origin) : nickname for a lazy man or a sleepyhead, from Old French dormeor ‘sleeper’, ‘sluggard’ (Latin dormitor, from dormire to sleep).English : most probably a habitational name, as medieval forms with de are found, but if so the place of origin has not been identified.Irish : when not of the same origin as 1 or 2, this is a reduced Anglicized form of the Donegal name Ó DÃorma, a reduced form of Ó DuibhdhÃormaigh ‘descendant of DuibhdhÃormach’, a personal name composed of Gaelic dubh ‘black’ + dÃormach ‘trooper’.
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English : nickname for an indolent person, from Middle English sleper ‘sleeper’.
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A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
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A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
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Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
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One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
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An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
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A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
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The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
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One who slumbers; a sleeper.
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The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
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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.
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A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
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A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
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One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
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A sleeping car.
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An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
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That which lies dormant, as a law.
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One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
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A longitudinal sleeper.
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A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.