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▪ I. sleeve, n.|sliːv|
Forms: α. 1 sliefe, slife, slyf(e, 5–6 slyue (5 sclyue, -ve). β. 1, 4–5 slefe, 6 Sc. sleffe (5 scl-), sleif. γ. 3–6 sleue, 4 slieue, 4, 6–7 sleeue, 6 Sc. sleiue; 4–7 sleve (5 slewe), 6– sleeve (6, 8 sleave, 6 Sc. sleive, sleyve, 7 sleev). δ. 5 skleve, 5–6 scleve, 6 Sc. sclewe.
[OE. slíęfe, etc. (Anglian sléfe) weak fem., and (slíęf), slýf str. fem., = EFris. slêwe, NFris. slêv, slív sleeve, related to MDu. slove, sloof (Kilian slooue) covering, Flem. dial. sloove band of wood, leather, or metal, etc.]
1. a. That part of a coat, shirt, or other garment which covers the arm. In early use freq., and still occas., a separate article of dress which could be worn at will with any body-garment.
See also foresleeve, hanging sleeve (hanging ppl. a.).
αa901Laws ælfred §66 (Liebermann), æᵹhwelcere wunde beforan feaxe & beforan sliefan and beneoðan cneowe. c960Rule St. Benet lv. 92 Hosa, slyfa, gyrdel, seax. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 376 He bletsode ðone hlaf, and tobræc, and bewand on his twam slyfum. c1400Beryn 3292 In this thevis sclyve [rime a-lyve] The knyff..was ȝistir-day I-found! c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xiv. 231 A man is not sufficientli clothid..but if he haue on him his scho, his slyue, his coot. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 915 His gowne so wyde That he may hyde His dame and his syre Within his slyue.
β971Blickl. Hom. 181 Petrus hæfde þonne þone hlaf ᵹeseᵹnod..& hine ᵹedyde on his twa slefan. c1325Metr. Hom. 111 For qua sa nehe wit hend or slefes Hate molten pic, on thaim it cleuis. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 77 It has lang slefez and wyde. 1474Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 22, ij elne of satyne to lyne the Kingis riding govne scleffis. 1505Ibid. III. 36 For ij elne wellus to be sleffis to ane cote to the King. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 93 Wyd sarkis, with mony bosumis, and wyde sleifes.
γa1225Ancr. R. 56 [He] seið þet heo mei iseon baldeliche holi men; ȝe nomeliche swuche ase he is, uor his wide sleuen. c1300Havelok 1957 Comen her mo þan sixti þeues, With lokene copes, and wide sleues. c1386Chaucer Prol. 93 Short was his gowne, with sleues longe and wyde. 1452Maldon Court Rolls (Bundle 31, no. 2), A peyr of slevys of blanket, a peyr of furred glovys. a1529Skelton Bouge of Court 433, I sawe a knyfe hyd in his one sleue. 1592Greene Conny Catch. iii. 18 Which made them..feel where their pursses were, either in sleeue, hose, or at girdle. 1614B. Jonson Bart. Fair iii. i, See you not Goldylocks..in her yellow gown and green sleeves? 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low-C. Wars i. 7 A Mill of iron..of such..smalness, that a Monk could easily hide it in his sleeve. 1712–4Pope Rape Lock i. 147 Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. i, ‘The coat I have on,’ said I, looking at the sleeve, ‘will do’. 1805Jane Austen Let. 21 Apr. (1952) 154, I wore my crape sleeves to the Concert, I had them put in on the occasion. 1829Scott Anne of G. iii, One sleeve of his vest was dark green. 1860Fairholt Costume (1885) I. 71 Widening their sleeves until they hung, not only over the entire hand, but several inches beyond it. 1873C. Robinson N.S. Wales 104 If he is willing to..take off his coat, turn up his sleeves, and put his shoulder to the wheel of fortune. 1897Montgomery Ward Catal. 297/1 Ladies' Gossamer Rubber Sleeves, 16 inches long. 1967G. Bellairs Single Ticket to Death v. 61 He was without jacket and wore black calico detachable sleeves reaching to the elbows of his white shirt.
Prov.1546Heywood Prov. (1867) 17 A broken leeue holdth tharme backe. 1577Harrison England ii. ix. (1877) i. 207 The broken sleeue doth hold the elbow backe. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. i. ii, A broken sleeue keepes the arme backe.
δ1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 222 A peyre of breganderys and the sklevys,..xij. s. 1489Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 144 For ane elne of sattin to lyne the sclevis. 1511Ibid. IV. 192 Ane coit with sclewiz. 1544Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 42 My beste paire off scleves.
b. Worn as a favour or token, or borne as a heraldic charge (cf. manche1 2).
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1043 She made hym were a pencel of here sleue. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 63 b, The kyng had on his hed a ladies sleve full of Diamondes. 1596Spenser St. Irel. Wks. (Globe) 635/2 Knightes in auncient times used to weare theyr mistress or loves sleeve, upon theyr armes. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xxiii, A lady's sleeve high-spirited Hastings wore. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 169 That Sleeue is mine, that heele beare in his Helme. 1859Tennyson Elaine 602 He wore..upon his helm A sleeve of scarlet, broider'd with great pearls, Some gentle maiden's gift. 1880Encycl. Brit. XI. 704 Bayard took a lady's sleeve and proclaimed it..as a prize to be contended for.
c. A piece of armour for covering and protecting the arm. Obs. exc. Hist.
1465Paston Lett. II. 190 The harnys Wyks delyveryd..to hym..: Inprimis..a payr slyvys of plate. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 46 With sleeues of maile or chained with maile. 1603Inventory of Armour Tower Lond. (Fairh.), Shirts of mail with sleeves. 1660Ibid., Sleeves of Male with a Velvet Coate to them. 1820Scott Monast. xxxv, Armed with cuirass and back-plate, with sleeves of mail, gauntlets and poldroons.
d. In University use: A gown having sleeves, or one who wears such a gown.
In quot. 1752 the reference is to the proctorship, and in quot. 1858 to the taking of a degree.
1752Mulso in Life G. White (1901) I. 67, I think you have paid the University a great compliment in accepting of the Sleeves. 1851Thackeray Last Irish Grievance, And uphold,..to the world's daytistation, The sleeves that appointed Professor MacCosh. 1858[J. C. Thomson] Almæ Matres 9 Wait, sweet verdant, till you have put the sleeves on.
e. Hippocrates' sleeve: see Hippocrates.
2. In figurative or allusive phrases:
a. to hold, pull, shake, take, etc., by the sleeve, in order to detain, attract attention, etc.
1390Gower Conf. II. 391 For thanne is poverte ate gate And takth him evene be the slieve. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 67 Let not the Mercer pul thee by the sleeue For sutes of silke, when cloth may serue thy turne. 1592Greene Philomela Wks. (Grosart) XI. 173 Loue beganne to shake him by the sleeue. 1592Nashe Pierce Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 127 Who can abide a scuruie pedling Poet to pluck a man by the sleeue at euerie third step in Paules Churchyard. 1600Holland Livy x. xvii. 364 Albeit Appius had given him his farewell and pasport, the weale publick & the armie held him still by the sleeve. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 176 Here I was about to lay down my pen, had not one passage more pulled me by the sleev. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. i. ix. 139, I then began..To..pull his Renegado Sleeve, That he would grant me a Reprieve. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 168 Devils pluck'd my sleeve.
b. to have in or up one's sleeve, to have in reserve, at one's disposal, or ready for some need or emergency. Also to put up one's sleeve.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxii. 68 Jok..Can now draw him ane cleik of kirkis, With ane fals cairt in to his sleif. 1577F. de Lisle's Legendarie K vij, He answered that he had contrary Edicts from the King in his sleeue. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesis iii. xxv. (Arb.) 305 To haue a iourney or sicknesse in his sleeue, thereby to shake of other importunities of greater consequence. 1855Trollope Warden xx. 312 Then the bishop brought forward another [plan] which he had in his sleeve. 1890Daily News 19 June 6/1 At the finish Barrett had considerably more up his sleeve than the three lengths with which he finished.
†c. to hang on, upon, of (another's) sleeve, to depend or rely upon for support or assistance. Obs.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 69 That he would none of his seruauntes should hang on another mannes sleue, and that he was aswel able to maintein him as the duke of Buckyngham. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 238 b, I lyke it righte well that you saye howe Themperoure hangeth not of the Bisshop his sleve. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. viii. §3 To them which ask why we thus hang our judgment on the Church's sleeve. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 369 You shall see..a third hanging vpon some lawyers sleeue, to plot and deuise how to perpetuate his estate.
d. to laugh or smile in one's sleeve: see laugh v. 1 b. Hence in other phrases (see later quots.).
1560[see laugh v. 1 b]. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxv. 12 They lawgh in their sleeve, which content themselves with the secret feeling of their owne joy. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 259 b, Will they smile in their sleaves at this your folly? or will they laugh openly at it? 1603Dekker Batchelors Banquet Wks. (Grosart) I. 163 She..doth not a litle reioyce and smile in her sleeue to see it. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 36 They laughed, as we use to say, in the sleev at least. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 616 A disinterested zeal, which those who recommend it laugh at in their sleeve as a weakness. 1806Beresford Miseries Hum. Life vii. xviii, Forcing your lips close together in order to keep it a secret from a dull dog that you are yawning in your sleeve at his stupidity. 1857Trollope Barchester T. l, ‘No, not that woman,’ said Mr. Harding, enjoying his joke in his sleeve. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) iv. 91 They had a dim impression that we might be smiling in our sleeves.
e. to pin..on, upon, or to one's sleeve: see pin v. 4 b. Hence † to pin one's sleeve upon (obs.). Also, † to attach, assign, or attribute (something) to a person.
(a)1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. i. 10 How sharply are the Corinthians taken vp by the Apostle, for pinning themselues upon mens sleeues, saying, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos. 1599[see pin v. 4 b]. 1632Sanderson Serm. I. 295 We may not..build our faith upon them.., nor pin our belief upon their sleeves. 1684N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible 171, Yet am I not such a one as to pin my sleeve so passionately upon St. Jerome as every where to approve his Errors. 1712M. Henry Popery Wks. 1853 II. 342/1 They require men..to pin their faith upon the pope's sleeve. 1831The Remembrancer 198 Men who pin their faith on the sleeve of their neighbour. 1873J. G. Holland A. Bonnicastle i. 35, I pinned my faith to my father's sleeve, and believed as fully and as far as he did.
(b)1616R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) 28 Proud Meacock, make the world no more believe Gentility is pind vpon thy sleeve. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 289 What of other mens faults I have pinn'd upon his sleeve, let him shew. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xxi. (1713) 157 It seems a kind of disparagement, to pin Vertue and Divine Grace upon the sleeves of them that are unwilling to receive it.
f. Miscellaneous phrases (see quots.). to put the sleeve on (someone): (a) to beg or borrow money from (someone); (b) to arrest (someone): to cause (someone) to be arrested; a sleeve across the windpipe, an assault or severe blow (usu. fig.).
to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve, see heart n. 54 f.
1546St. Papers, Hen. VIII, XI. 110 The other twoo be of so goodde and playne natures,..as the Kinges Highnes might be sure to carry them in his sleve. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 183 My maister your father, hath many a tyme and oft, wipte his nose vpon his sleeve: meanyng that his father was a Fishemonger. 1580–3Greene Mamillia Ep. Ded., Being blamed of Pausanias, for striuing further then his sleeue would stretch. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) 22 See how they grid thee in their sleeues already. 1843Lockhart R. Dalton iii. v, Few cut the sleeve by the arm the first trial they make of it. 1860H. Gouger Two Yrs. Impr. Burmah 212 Our..doctor had crept up the sleeve of the Chief of the prison so far as to draw from him the gift of a bamboo. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 22 I'd advise you to creep up her sleeve again. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby II. 158 But then there's Alice's papa—and that's another pair of sleeves, as we say in France. 1904H. James Golden Bowl I. iii. xxiv. 395 ‘Decide to live—ah yes!—for her child.’ ‘Oh, bother her child!.. To live..for her father—which is another pair of sleeves!’ 1930D. Runyon in Sat. Even. Post 5 Apr. 72/2 These coppers..know who he is very well indeed and will take great pleasure in putting the old sleeve on him if they only have a few charges against him, which they do not. 1931Amer. Speech VI. 440 Put the sleeve on, to borrow; to make a touch from a fellow convict. 1934H. N. Rose Thes. Slang iii. 29/1 Wait'll I put the sleeve on Joe fer some chewin'. 1937Nature 23 Jan. 130/1 Prof. Furnas's exasperating,..naive volume is altogether another pair of sleeves. 1952Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland i. 13 My wardrobe perished in the holocaust, of course. When you're being given the sleeve across the windpipe by Acts of God, you don't waste time fumbling around for socks and trousers. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 486/1 Put the sleeve on (someone), 1. To arrest someone; to identify someone to the police for arrest. 2. To stop a friend on the street in order to ask for a loan of money; to ask for a contribution or for money owed. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 17 Just as if it looked as though all they had to do was collect the bridesmaids, order the cake and sign up the Bishop and assistant clergy, along came the sleeve across the windpipe. Her father refused to give his consent to their union.
3. a. [After F. La Manche.] The English Channel. Obs. exc. as nonce-use.
1574W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xxii. (1577) 59 b, It is a dangerous place to hit or fal with, to enter into the sleue, comming homewardes out of Spaine or Portugall. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 79 At Boloigne..a narrow streit [marg. called the sleeve] ebbing and flowing. 1626–7in Birch Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 232 Many others have been likewise taken within the sleeve since the return of Captain Pennington. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 265 To fetch a wind..to bring us home into the Sleeve, our English Channel. 1909Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 4/4 When he learned that a Frenchman had aeroplaned the Sleeve.
†b. A channel or strait. Obs.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 220 If all that part of the Sleeve or Strait [in the Red Sea] had bin by the ebbe of a spring-tyde discovered. c1645Howell Fam. Lett. (1650) II. 113, I have already shot divers dangerous gulfs,..while others sail in the sleeve of fortune. 1655Fanshawe tr. Camoens' Lusiad ii. 45 If Antenor with his ship did thred Th' Illyrian-Sleeve.
†4. Mil. A body of troops placed on the flanks of an army, battalion, etc.; a wing or flank. Obs.
After F. manche, used in this sense in the 16th cent.
1574H. S. Most Briefe Tables G iij b, It remayneth that wee do intreat howe to make the sleeves of the harkabuzers and winges of the horsemen. 1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 41, I would wish all great sleeues of shot to be deuided into many small troupes. 1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 81 A sleeue of archers is auailable against an enemie, aswell in such arrowes as do not hit, as in such as do hit.
5. = sleeve-fish. ? Obs.
1611Cotgr., Casseron, the Sleeue, or Calamarie. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 242 Cuttles, called also Sleeves for their Shape, and Scribes for their inky Humour. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 855 The Sleave or Ink-fish Lolligo. 1722J. Jones Oppian's Halieut. 231 τευδίς, Lolligo, the Sleve, a flying Fish.
†6. (See quot.) Obs.—1
Cf. F. manche, a leather or canvas hose used with a ship's pump, etc.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage viii. iii. 618 Neither can the..Rockes breake these yeelding Vessels. They haue also (as it were) a Sleeue in the bottome thereof, by which, with a subtile deuise, they conuey the water forth.
7. techn.
a. (See quot.)
1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 27/1 This elastic material [in a pump] is surrounded by a sleeve of cloth, which admits sand to pass up and around it.
b. A tube, or hollow shaft, fitting over or enclosing a rod, spindle, etc., and designed to protect or strengthen it, or to connect one part with another. spec. part of a celt or prehistoric axe.
Also attrib. as sleeve-axle, sleeve-coupling, sleeve-nut (Knight).
a1864Gesner Coal, Petrol., etc. (1865) 32 The pump-rods, which are tough wooden rods fitted together by iron sleeves and screws. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. I 5, The two worms are united by a hollow shaft or sleeve. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 133 A groove is formed around the sleeve in which is a spring pressing the sleeve upwards. 1929V. G. Childe Danube in Prehistory 78 Possibly they were shafted with the aid of horn sleeves. Ibid. 107 Axes and adzes hafted in deer-horn sleeves. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 20/1 Antler sleeve, a section of deer antler carved into a mortice at one end to hold a stone axe head.
c. Electr. A metal cylinder fitted round the full length of the core of an electromagnetic relay to modify the speeds of opening and closing. Cf. slug n.2 3 c.
1921W. Aitken Autom. Telephone Systems I. 45 The copper sleeve and heavy ring on the core of F gives it a greater range of adjustment. 1969S. F. Smith Teleph. & Telegr. A ii. 45 The skin effect, due mainly to the iron core, tends to confine alternating magnetic fluxes at speech frequencies to the nickel-iron sleeves to give the required impedance.
d. Aeronaut. = drogue 3 (b) and (c).
1933C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman (thesis, Univ. Akron) 90 Sleeve, a towed target for anti-aircraft guns to practice shooting at. 1933S. Spender Poems 45 The air-liner..Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall To point the wind. 1937Times 12 June 16/4 The target was the usual sleeve, towed behind a Fairey Gordon. 1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 67 There's the old Henley and there's the sleeve coming up—. They're off!—..A grand salvo after a week's weary waiting.
e. A close-fitting protective cover or case, esp. one for a gramophone record; a slip-case. Cf. record sleeve s.v. record n. 14.
1953N.Y. Times 22 Mar. ii. 40/6 Another group of buyers is swayed more by the art on the ‘sleeve’ or jacket than by the quality, or even by the title, of the music. 1954Melody Maker 11 Dec. 15/2 His first LP to be released in this country..reached me without sleeve. 1976W. Goldman Magic iii. ii. 119 She lifted the tone arm off, and..put the record back in the sleeve. 1981Verbatim Spring 20/2 This is a man's pocket wallet with some plastic credit card sleeves.
8. a. attrib. and Comb., as (in sense 1) sleeve-band, sleeve-hole, sleeve knot, sleeve-link, sleeve-puff; (sense 7 d) sleeve target; (sense 7 e) sleeve artist, sleeve design, sleeve information, sleeve-picture; sleeve-defended, sleeve-hidden, sleeve-like adjs.
1977Times 18 Apr. (Gram. Suppl.) p. iv/6 Individual *sleeve artists such as Roger Dean or Patrick Woodroffe.
1775Ash Dict., *Sleeveband, the band of the sleeve.
1830Howitt Seasons (1837) 216 The dame..with *sleeve-defended arms, scorns to do less than the best of them.
1977Times 18 Apr. (Gram. Suppl.) p. iv/7 Jazz musicians..insisted on good *sleeve design.
1886Daily News 8 Apr. 5/3 *Sleeve-hidden aces!
1878Abney Photogr. (1881) 223 Below the mask..are two *sleeve-holes with attached sleeves.
1966Melody Maker 23 July 16/5 Bob Houston's review of the John Coltrane album ‘Ascension’ blindly copies the *sleeve information that Freddie Hubbard plays the first trumpet solo.
1775Ash, *Sleeveknot, a knot of ribband worn on the sleeve.
1611Cotgr., Manche, a *sleeue⁓like narrowing of the sea betweene two lands.
1886Pascoe Lond. of To-day xli. (ed. 3) 355 In the way of rings, *sleeve⁓links, scarf-pins, and the like.
1959Times 10 Jan. 9/5 A disc with an imaginative if punning *sleeve-picture showing wind blowing through barley.
1894The Season X. 38/1 With elegant vest and *sleeve-puffs.
1932Aeroplane 11 May 839 (caption), A Fairey IIIF seaplane towing a *sleeve target for gunnery practice. 1955‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 68 Firing the Oerlikon at a sleeve target towed by an aeroplane. 1979A. Fox Threat Warning Red iii. 27 Sleeve target this afternoon, an AA shoot.
1860Fairholt Costume (1885) II. 369 *Sleeve-weight..; they weighed about two ounces, and were covered with linen, and fastened to the bottom of the large sleeves to make them hang well.
b. Special combs., as sleeve bearing, a form of bearing in which an axle or shaft turns in a lubricated sleeve; sleeve-board, a shaped board on which sleeves are ironed or pressed; sleeve-cap U.S., the topmost part of a sleeve; sleeve-creeper, one who curries favour by mean or indirect methods (cf. 2 f); sleeve dog, a very small Pekinese dog, usually under six pounds in weight; sleeve gun U.S., a miniature gun which can be concealed in the clothing; † sleeve-hand, the wristband or cuff of a sleeve; † sleeve-net (see quot.); sleeve-note, an informative or critical note about a gramophone record, printed on the sleeve; sleeve Pekinese = sleeve dog above; sleeve-valve, a kind of valve, employed in certain types of internal-combustion engine, consisting of a hollow cylindrical sleeve fitting closely inside the engine cylinder and moving with the piston in such a way that inlet and exhaust ports are opened and closed at appropriate times; freq. attrib.; hence sleeve-valved a.; sleeve-waistcoat, a waistcoat having sleeves.
1907W. S. Boulton Pract. Coal-Mining III. 9 The ‘*sleeve’ bearing..is intended to obviate this waste [of oil], and to secure continuously good lubrication. 1967Times Rev. Industry Aug. 22/2 Exhaust silencers, anti-vibration mounts, the substitution of sleeve bearings for ball or roller bearings, [etc.]..are only a few of the attempts made to reduce the noise at source. 1975Sci. Amer. July 50/1 Since many motors, engines and other machines incorporate journal bearings (sometimes designated plain bearings, sleeve bearings, fluid-film bearings or bushings), the annual production of journal bearings is in the billions.
1826W. E. Andrews Rev. Fox's Bk. Mart. II. 148 It would have been better for him if he had minded his thimble and *sleeve-board than dabble in theology. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 July 7/6 (Advt.), Sleeve Boards, regular 75c. Our price 32c. 1969D. Clark Death after Evensong ii. 31 Trousers, with no fore-and-aft creases.., ironed on a sleeve board.
1964McCall's Sewing xi. 158/1 All set-in sleeves are cut with a *sleeve cap that is larger than the armhole section into which it must fit. 1978Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 50/1 All too often a knitted sweater is ruined by puckers where the sleeve cap joins the shoulder section.
1809E. S. Barrett Setting Sun II. 6 Some of them..can discern between a soldier and a *sleeve-creeper.
1890Pall Mall G. 26 Feb. 5/1 The quaint little Japanese terriers, called in their native island *sleeve dogs, because the ladies there carry them hidden in their sleeves. 1931A. C. Dixey Lion Dog of Peking iv. 12 They were petted and pampered, the smallest—the highly-prized ‘sleeve’ dogs—being carried in the voluminous sleeves of the long robes worn at Court by both sexes. 1970P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 27. 7 The toy or small breeds such as the Pekinese and Shih Tzu had been the sleeve dogs of women at the Imperial Court of China.
1944R. F. Adams Western Words 146/1 *Sleeve gun, a derringer such as a gambler carried up his sleeve. 1971K. Wheeler Epitaph for Mister Wynn xxxii. 396 He..took out a snub-barreled Sharps derringer, a sleeve gun. 1974E. McGirr Murderous Journey 153 Have a look at Pout... Sleeve gun and I'd guess an envelope in his breast pocket.
c1550in Leland Collect. (1774) IV. 323 A Surcoat of the same [crimson velvet] furred with Mynever pure, the Coller, Skirts, and *Sleeve-hands garnished with Ribbons of Gold. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 211 You would thinke a Smocke were a shee-Angell, he so chauntes to the sleeue-hand, and the worke about the square on't.
1611Cotgr., Manche, a *sleeue-net, a narrow and long fish-net.
1956Gramophone Oct. 184/2 Each soloist is given his fair share of the spotlight (the *sleeve notes helpfully identify which plays when). 1980Early Music Jan. 85/2 A pity, though, that the programme book's translation of the libretti kept so close to the impenetrable one in the sleeve-notes to the Electrola/Reflexe recording.
1949I. Harman Pekingese iv. 37 A Miniature or *Sleeve Pekingese is, officially, any Pekingese which is not more than six pounds in weight. 1978‘J. Melville’ Axwater i. 12 A tiny, bright-eyed, button-faced creature appeared..and behind it another even smaller. Two sleeve Pekingese.
1910Engineering 18 Nov. 688/3 Both Messrs. Panhard and Levassor..and Messrs. Milnes Daimler, Limited..showed examples of the Knight *sleeve-valve engine. 1911Ibid. 3 Nov. 590/2 The usual tappet-valves are replaced by a single sleeve-valve. 1958Gibson & Tuteur Control System Components xi. 424 A Vickers two-land sleeve valve. 1982P. Dickinson Last House-Party iv. 49 ‘This car makes a remarkable amount of smoke.’ ‘That's the trouble with these sleeve-valve engines.’
1932World Today Feb. 261/2 The news that Daimlers had taken over the Lanchester Company suggested that it might be a *sleeve-valved job.
1824Ann. Reg., Chron. 90 Pittaway had a *sleeve-waistcoat such as he wears now. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. viii, He..stands disclosed in a sleeve-waistcoat of white flannel.
▪ II. sleeve
obs. form of sleave n. and v.
▪ III. sleeve, v.|sliːv|
Also 5 slevyn, 5–6 sleve, 6–7 sleeue.
[f. sleeve n.]
1. trans.
a. To fit (a garment) with a sleeve or sleeves. Cf. sleeved ppl. a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 459/1 Sleve garmentys (K. slevyn or settyn on sleuys), manico. 1598Florio, Immanicare,..to sleeue a garment.
b. To clothe or cover (the arm, etc.) with a sleeve. In quot. fig.
1887Blackmore Springhaven III. 61 Although M. Jalais' trees were leafless now, they had sleeved their bent arms with green velvetry of moss.
†2. To provide (a body of troops) with a wing or wings. Obs.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 41 So should I haue 10 ranks for to sleeue the one flanke of the battallion. 1613Heywood Silver Age ii. i, Both our Armies Are cast in forme, well fronted, sleeu'd, & wing'd.
†b. intr. To draw or line up on the flanks or wings. Obs.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 40 Hauing passed the straight, to sleeue vp in file. 1623Bingham Xenophon 73 He gaue the word, that the following companies should sleeue vp by the first. 1635W. Barriffe Mil. Discipl. lxxx. (1643) 229 The Musquettiers sleeve up file-wise, to the front.
†3. In pa. pple.: Pent up, confined. Obs.—1
Used with allusion to sleeve n. 3.
1645J. Bond Job in West 60 It is a Country partly hugg'd in the armes of the Ocean, upon the North; partly sleeved up by the narrow sea, upon the South.
4. To fix or fasten on, to couple, by means of a sleeve or tube.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1449 The chisels..have weighted pistons sleeved upon them. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 97 The motors are sleeved on the axles.
Add:[4.] b. With down. To reduce in size the bore of (a firearm or engine), by fitting metal shafts, etc. within the barrel or cylinder. Also with the barrel, etc. as obj.
1976‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set iv. 26 If they sleeve them down they can get ammo for them under British jurisdiction. 1986Dirt Bike Rider July 19/1 KTM have utilised some left over 500 bottom-ends and sleeved down a 500 barrel to come up with a 345 cc engine. 1987Classic Racer Summer 53/3 The engine was sleeved down to 122 cc, fixed up with alloy flywheels in the place of bob-weights, and the barrel was turned round front-to-back.
5. To provide with or enclose in a protective cover. Cf. sleeve n. 7 e.
1980Musicians Only 26 Apr. 14/6 Samea will look at each disc before it is sleeved and will play both sides of random samples. 1986Camera Weekly 110 (Advt.), Hand negative cutting and sleeved in sixes. 1988D. MacCarthy Prodfact 1988 (Brit. Farm Produce Council) 98 Celery will keep best if sleeved and stored in a refrigerator. |