DCHP-3

sleeper

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Lumbering, Obs.

See bedding timbers 1853 quote.

Quotations

1863
Sam explained the structure when the waggon had done bumping over it: trunks of trees had been laid along the road as "sleepers" in three continuous lines. . . .
2n. — Maritimes

a large root or other piece of wood partially buried in the soil.

Quotations

1954
The thing Grant had noticed from the first was that if the plough-point caught in a boulder, Stewart would go at the rock with his hands. If a sleeper needed shifting he would strain at the heavy timber without waiting for help.
3n. — Cdn Football

a play in which a player moves to the sidelines as if moving off the field during a group substitution, then moves ahead on a quick play to receive a pass unchallenged by a defending player.

Quotations

1966
But it took an imaginative play . . . to sound the knell of the sleeper.