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colonist (-type) sleeper Hist. 
a railway coach having wooden seats and rough berths for sleeping, sometimes also having cooking facilities.
See also: colonist car
- 1891 The special transport train consisting of six colonist sleepers, one pullman, a mess car and a baggage car . . . steamed into the station at 20:30 Sunday evening.
- 1966 We were paid . . . $2.25 a day, out of which we were docked 90 cents for board and bunk in an old wooden Colonist-type sleeper.
- 1891 The special transport train consisting of six colonist sleepers, one pullman, a mess car and a baggage car . . . steamed into the station at 20:30 Sunday evening.