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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

... and trimmed with white ribbon; the petticoat, which is the most showy part of the dress, covered and drawn up in what are called festoons, with light wreaths of beautiful flowers; the sleeves white crape, drawn over silk, with a row of lace round the sleeve near the shoulder, another half way down the arm, and a third upon the top of the ruffle, a little flower stuck between; a kind of hat-cap, with three large feathers, and a bunch of flowers; a wreath ...

— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday

... his way home that the parson could not touch him at penmanship. I have observed with a little malicious satisfaction that such persons, arising in their pride from the place where they wrote, generally smear their signature with their coat-sleeve, and reduce it to a state of comparative illegibility. I like to see the smirking, impudent ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various

... far greater number of "orders" than he could execute. The stout little woman in the cloth helmet placed herself in an attitude which was no doubt meant to be irresistibly attractive. Several of the youngsters plucked the artist by the sleeve, and thrust forward their pert little faces, as if to say, "Do me!" or "Here's a chance for you!" and the schoolmaster, promptly clearing a space in front of Sam, placed himself in an attitude, and by his commanding look ordered him to begin at once. He did begin, ...

— Chasing the Sun • R.M. Ballantyne

... call again to-morrow; I am in a great hurry to-day," I said, slipping on one sleeve of my overcoat ...

— Pharaoh's Broker - Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner • Ellsworth Douglass

... struggle with Mrs. Garth at the bridge, the rumor passed through Wythburn that the plague was in the district. Since the advent of the new preachers the people had seen the dreaded scourge dangling from the sleeve of every stranger who came from the fearsome world without. They had watched for the fatal symptoms: they had waited for them: they had invited them. Every breeze seemed to be freighted with the plague wind; every harmless ailment seemed ...

— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

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