Definition of "sleepe" [sleepe]

• Obsolete spelling of sleep. (noun)
• Obsolete spelling of sleep. (verb)

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• "And therefore after dinner there is no talking with them, but euery man goeth to his bench to take his afternoones sleepe, which is as ordinary with them as their nights rest."
• "At a town meeting in 1662, it was ordered "that a cage be made or some other meanes invented by the selectmen to punish such as sleepe or take tobacco on the Lord's day out of the meetinge in the time of publique service.""
• "295: Sleeke-headed men, and such as sleepe a-nights:"