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sleeve-fish [Cf. sleeve n. 5.] A fish of the family Loligo; esp. the common calamary or squid, Loligo vulgaris.
1611Cotgr., Taute, a Calamarie, or sleeue-fish. 1710Sibbald History of Fife 54, I have found these Crabs, we call Keavies, eating the Slieve-Fish greedily. 1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 127 On a table or dish, There shall lie a sleeve-fish. 1840tr. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 340 The Sleeve-fish..have in the back, instead of a shell, a horny lamina in the shape of a sword or lancet. |