slumberer

slumberer

English

Etymology

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

Noun

slumberer (plural slumberers)

1. One who slumbers; a sleeper.
   • 1633, John Donne, The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis, in John Carey (ed.) John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75,

     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;

   • 1955, Martin Buber, The Legend of the Baal-Shem, translated by Maurice Friedman, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 148,

     There lay the houses in the dawn light with closed window-shutters, like joyless slumberers with heavy lids.

Anagrams

• lumberers