Slumberer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who slumbers; a sleeper.

    "His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;"

  2. 2
    a rester who is sleeping wordnet

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sleepersleeper

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"His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;"

Etymology

From Middle English slombere, slomerer, slummerare, equivalent to slumber + -er.

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