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Pronunciation : Sleeve
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Sleeve
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. sleeve, sleve, AS. sl, sl; akin to sl to put on, to clothe; cf. OD. sloove the turning up of anything, sloven to turn up one's sleeves, sleve a sleeve, G. schlaube a husk, pod.]
Definition : 1. The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

2. A narrow channel of water. [R.] The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve. Drayton.

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. 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, 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 pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make, dependent upon.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Sleeve
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.

t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913