DCHP-1 Online
sleep † 
n. in Indian and Eskimo parlance, a day, that is the time between one time of sleeping and the next; the distance travelled in this lapse of time.
- 1743 (1949) [How many nights have you been a comming (or how many nights did you sleep.)]
- 1896 The one "sleep" did not bring us up to the caribou, but it took us north to the lodge of another Indian who had been more fortunate than we.
- 1938 I was warned to take more "gas" or we would never get back by motor; the lake was "seven sleeps long."
- 1951 ". . . attempt the journey of seven or eight sleeps for a visit, a sleep meaning one day's travel and one night's rest on the trail."
- 1743 (1949) [How many nights have you been a comming (or how many nights did you sleep.)]