Meanings
noun
- alternativeAlternative form of fox sleep.
... he himself lay in a fox's sleep in a corner of the barn.
1833, Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune : a Tale of Real Life, page 1841 more example
...here and there lay one in a fox's sleep, as children call it, and too lazy to rise till his evening meal was ready; the Kafir dines at sunset.
1858, Harriet Ward, Hardy and Hunter. A Boy's Own Story, page 114
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