to sleep

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Sometimes used as an active verb; as, 'This steamboat can sleep three hundred passengers,' i. e. can furnish sleeping accommodations for them. We have heard of a landlady who said 'she could eat fifty people in her house, but could not sleep half the number.'

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