Slumberer
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a rester who is sleeping wordnet
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More examples"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.