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Sleeve   /sliv/   Listen
noun
Sleeve  n.  See Sleave, untwisted thread.


Sleeve  n.  
1.
The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown.
2.
A narrow channel of water. (R.) "The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve."
3.
(Mach.)
(a)
A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.
(b)
A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.
(c)
A short piece of pipe used for covering a joint, or forming a joint between the ends of two other pipes.
4.
(Elec.) A double tube of copper, in section like the figure 8, into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
Sleeve button, a detachable button to fasten the wristband or cuff.
Sleeve links, two bars or buttons linked together, and used to fasten a cuff or wristband.
To laugh in the sleeve or To laugh up one's sleeve to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times.
To pinon the sleeve of, or To hang on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.


verb
Sleeve  v. t.  (past & past part. sleeved; pres. part. sleeving)  To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.





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"Sleeve" Quotes from Famous Books



... Her mother held her sleeve and looked up, smiling. Lady Coryston's smiles were scarcely less formidable than ...
— The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... accept it. At first he seemed willing enough, but after holding a consultation with the Courtier for five minutes, he reluctantly put it back again. As he went along, he took samples of every thing that he could easily put into his sleeve, which served him instead of a sack; so that when he came upon deck, he was pretty well loaded, and looked about with the satisfaction of a school-boy, on having visited a show for the ...
— Account of a Voyage of Discovery - to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island • Captain Basil Hall
... will cost you twice as much: Alas! alas! we are every day worse and worse, and grow like a cows tail, downward: And why all this? We have a clerk of the market not worth three figgs, and values more the getting of a doit himself, than any of our lives: 'Tis this makes him laugh in his sleeve; for he gets more money in a day than many an honest man's whole estate: I know not how he got the estate he has; but if we had any thing of men about us, he would not hug himself as he does, but now the people are grown to this pass, that ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter
... which all the way they went pull'd Veritas by the sleeve, one by one and the other by the other, but shee would not ...
— Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries • William Francis Dawson
... back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm. It was tattooed in several places. "Here's luck," "A fair wind," and "Billy Bones his fancy," were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson


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