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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

... crunching across the hard, bright surface of the snow, they entered into the terrible frozen silence. Then she turned from the door, dried her eyes with her sleeve like a little village girl, and ran across the room to a certain shelf. Pierre would be gone a week. She would not waste oil, but she would read. It was with the appetite of a starved creature that she fell upon ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

... forward and showed her a fine gown he had made for her. Petruchio, whose intent was that she should have neither cap nor gown, found as much fault with that. 'O mercy, Heaven!' said he, 'what stuff is here! What, do you call this a sleeve? it is like a demi-cannon, carved up and down like an apple tart.' The tailor said: 'You bid me make it according to the fashion of the times'; and Katharine said, she never saw a better fashioned gown. This was enough for Petruchio, ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... megaphone," suggested Burnett. "That's the way my mother taught me to pack when I was a kid. You put your tooth brush in a shoe, and the shoe in a sleeve and then turn the sleeve inside out. Oh, I tell you—what is home without a mother?—Put the mouse in the megaphone and stop up both ends. What are your hands and ...

— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner

... the onslaught of the brute. In that attitude I stood frozen, for never had I beheld such a vision of loveliness. The arm that encircled the shaggy neck of the dog was bare almost to the shoulder, the sleeve of finest lace having fallen back in the energy of her action, and never have I seen an arm so white, so round, or tapering so finely to the slender wrist and exquisite little hand clutching a lock of Leon's mane. ...

— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon

... which had lately shown a tendency to jam if he worked the lever too fast; and was trying to decide just what make and calibre of rifle he would buy with the money now in his pocket; and he was grinning in his sleeve at the ease with which he had "stung" this young tenderfoot, who was unsuspectingly going up against a proposition which Hank, with all his love for the wild, would never attempt of his ...

— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower

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