sleeven.
/sliːv/, U.S. /sliv/ 1.
a. That part of a coat, shirt, or other garment which covers the arm. In early use frequently, and still occasionally, a separate article of dress which could be worn at will with any body-garment. See also foresleeve n., hanging sleeve (hanging adj.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm
sleevea901
armc1400
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for arms > [noun] > sleeve
sleevea901
manica1727
α.
β. 971 Blickl. Hom. 181 Petrus hæfde þonne þone hlaf gesegnod..& hine gedyde on his twa slefan.c1325 Metr. Hom. 111 For qua sa nehe wit hend or slefes Hate molten pic, on thaim it cleuis.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 77 It has lang slefez and wyde.1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 22 ij elne of satyne to lyne the Kingis riding govne scleffis.1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 36 For ij elne wellus to be sleffis to ane cote to the King.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 93 Wyd sarkis, wt mony bosumis, and wyde sleifes.γ. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 46 [He] seið ha mei baldeliche iseon halimen. ȝe swiche as he is for his wide sleue.c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1957 Comen her mo þan sixti þeues, With lokene copes, and wide sleues.c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 93 Short was his gowne, with sleues longe & wyde.1452 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 31, No. 2) A peyr of slevys of blanket, a peyr of furred glovys.?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bivv I sawe a knyfe hyd in his one sleue.1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. C4 Which made them..feel where their pursses were, either in sleeue, hose, or at girdle.1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. vi. 49 in Wks. II See you not Goldylocks..in her yellow gowne, and greene sleeues?1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico i. 7 A Mill of iron..of such..smalness, that a Monk could easily hide it in his sleeve.1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) i. 9 Some fold the Sleeve, while others plait the Gown.1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 2 The coat I have on, said I, looking at the sleeve, will do.1805 J. Austen Let. 21 Apr. (1995) 103 I wore my crape sleeves to the Concert, I had them put in on the occasion.1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein I. iii. 87 One sleeve of his vest was dark green.1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 74 Widening their sleeves until they hung, not only over the entire hand but several inches beyond it.1873 C. Robinson New 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.1897 Montgomery Ward Catal. 297/1 Ladies' Gossamer Rubber Sleeves, 16 inches long.1967 G. 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.proverbial.1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. ix. sig. Bii A broken sleue holdth tharme backe.1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ix. i. 207 The broken sleeue doth hold the elbow backe.1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. ii. 121 in Wks. II A broken sleeue keepes the arme backe.δ. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 222 A peyre of breganderys and the sklevys,..xij. s.1489 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 144 For ane elne of sattin to lyne the sclevis.1511 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 192 Ane coit with sclewiz.1544 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 42 My beste paire off scleves.a901 Laws Ælfred (Liebermann) §66 Æghwelcere wunde beforan feaxe & beforan sliefan and beneoðan cneowe.
c960 Rule St. Benet lv. 92 Hosa, slyfa, gyrdel, seax.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 376 He bletsode ðone hlaf, and tobræc, and bewand on his twam slyfum.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 231 A man is not sufficientli clothid..but if he haue on him his scho, his slyue, his coot.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3292 In this thevis sclyve [rhyme a-lyve] The knyff..was ȝistir-day I-found!
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ciii His gowne so wyde, that he may hyde His dame and his syre, within his slyue.
b. Worn as a favour or token, or borne as a heraldic charge (cf. maunch n. 1).
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [noun] > sleeve
sleevec1374
maunch1486
maunch maltalea1550
mancheron1725
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1043 She made hym were a pencel of here sleue.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiiiv The kyng had on his hed a ladies sleue full of Diamondes.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 43 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Knights in auncient times used to weare their Mistresses or Loves sleive, upon their Armes.
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. xxii. 31 A Ladyes sleeue hie-spirited Hastings wore.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 172 That sleeue is mine, that heele beare on his Helme. View more context for this quotation
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 178 He wore..upon his helm A sleeve of scarlet, broider'd with great pearls, Some gentle maiden's gift.
1880 Encycl. 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. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour
bracer?a1400
bracec1400
sleeve1465
plate-sleeve1578
bracelet1580
monion1652
brachal1658
arm piece1659
armlet1706
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 300 The harnys..Wykys delyueryd..to hym..: In primis..a payre slyvys of plate.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 46 With sleeues of maile or chained with maile.
1603 Inventory of Armour Tower Lond. (Fairh.) Shirts of mail with sleeves.
1660 Inventory of Armour Tower Lond. (Fairh.) Sleeves of Male with a Velvet Coate to them.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. x. 254 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.
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society > education > member of university > [noun]
suppost1522
supposit1532
man1573
academic1581
catercap1588
black gown1616
square cap1642
academical1656
academician1665
gownsman1665
sleeve1752
Academe1861
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > academic robe > types of
sleeve1752
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who
Court-mantlec1367
Sunday citizen1598
longcoat1603
lettice ruffa1625
silkworma1625
copester1637
short-coat1649
Scotch-sleeve?1706
Evite1713
uniform1786
nude1810
blue-stockinged1818
waistcoateer1825
padder1828
stook of duds1834
bloomer1851
sleeve1851
shirt1860
shirtwaister1900
DJ1926
rat-catcher1928
sweater girl1940
zoot-suiter1942
Edwardian1954
penguin1967
overcoat1969
1752 J. Mulso in Life G. White (1901) I. 67 I think you have paid the University a great compliment in accepting of the Sleeves.
1851 W. M. Thackeray 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' sleeve n. at Hippocrates n. 1
2. In figurative or allusive phrases:† c. to hang on, upon, of (a person's) sleeve, to depend or rely upon for support or assistance. Obsolete.
a. to hold, pull, shake, take, etc., by the sleeve, in order to detain, attract attention, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > arouse attention [verb (intransitive)] > by deliberate action
to hold, pull, shake, take, etc., by the sleeve1390
to collect eyes1904
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 391 For thanne is poverte ate gate And takth him evene be the slieve.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. E.iiii Let not the Mercer, pul thee by the sleeue For sutes of silke, when cloth may serue thy turne.
1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. G3 Loue beganne to shake him by the sleeue.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. L2 Who can abide a scuruie pedling Poet to plucke a man by the sleeue at euerie third step in Paules Churchyard.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xvii. 364 Albeit Appius had given him his farewell and pasport, the weale publick & the armie held him still by the sleeve.
1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 176 Here I was about to lay down my pen, had not one passage more pulled me by the sleev.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. ix. 139 I then began..To..pull his Renegado Sleeve, That he would grant me a Reprieve.
1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 61 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.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > be prepared or ready > for an emergency
to have in or up one's sleeve?a1513
a card up (or in) one's sleeve1656
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 227 Jok..Can now draw him ane cleik of kirkis, With ane fals cairt in to his sleif.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Kvij He answered that he had contrary Edicts from the King in his sleeue.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxv. 251 To haue a iourney or sicknesse in his sleeue, thereby to shake of other importunities of greater consequence.
1855 A. Trollope Warden xx. 312 Then the bishop brought forward another [plan] which he had in his sleeve.
1890 Daily News 19 June 6/1 At the finish Barrett had considerably more up his sleeve than the three lengths with which he finished.
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society > authority > subjection > be under authority [verb (intransitive)] > be dependent
to lie in one's powerc1374
depend1548
to hang on, upon, of (a person's) sleeve1548
to lie in (or on) one's handsa1593
to fall upon ——?1672
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxix 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.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxviijv I lyke it righte well..that you saye howe Themperoure hangeth not of the Bisshop his sleue.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. viii. 14 To them which aske why we thus hang our iudgement on the Churches sleeue.
1607 S. Hieron Spirituall Sonne-ship in Wks. (1620) 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. Phrases 1d. Hence in other phrases (see later quots.).
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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxiiij If I coueted nowe to auenge the iniuries that you haue done me, I myght laughe in my slyue.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxv. 12) They lawgh in their sleeve, which content themselves with the secret feeling of their owne joy.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 259 b Will they smile in their sleaves at this your folly? or will they laugh openly at it?
1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet i. sig. B1 She..doth not a litle reioyce and smile in her sleeue to see it.
1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 36 They laughed, as we use to say, in the sleev at least.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 358 A disinterested zeal, which those who recommend it laugh at in their sleeve as a weakness.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. vii. 151 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.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers l ‘No, not that woman,’ said Mr. Harding, enjoying his joke in his sleeve.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 90 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.1 4b. Hence †to pin one's sleeve upon (obsolete). Also, †to attach, assign, or attribute (something) to a person.
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the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > acknowledge, avow, or confess [verb (intransitive)] > profess openly
to pin one's sleeve upon1585
to pin‥on, upon, or to one's sleeve1585
(a)
(b)c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) ii. 784 Proud meacocke, make the world no more believe Gentility is pind vpon thy sleeve.1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 30 What of other mens faults I have pinn'd upon his sleeve, let him shew.1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xxi. 157 It seems a kind of disparagement, to pin Vertue and Divine Grace upon the sleeves of them that are unwilling to receive it.1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. i. 10 How sharply are the Corinthians taken vp by the Apostle, for pinning themselues vpon mens sleeues, saying, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos?
1599 Life Sir T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biogr. (1853) II. 149 I never intended to pinne my soule to another mans sleeve.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 295 We may not..build our faith upon them.., nor pin our belief upon their sleeves.
1684 N. S. tr. R. Simon Crit. Enq. Editions 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.
1712 M. Henry Popery in Wks. (1853) II. 342/1 They require men..to pin their faith upon the pope's sleeve.
1831 The Remembrancer 198 Men who pin their faith on the sleeve of their neighbour.
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 35 I pinned my faith to my father's sleeve, and believed as fully and as far as he did.
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 (usually figurative).to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve: see heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 5e.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]
at-holda1230
attacha1325
resta1325
takec1330
arrest1393
restay?a1400
tachec1400
seisinc1425
to take upa1438
stowc1450
seize1471
to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515
deprehend1532
apprehend1548
nipa1566
upsnatcha1566
finger1572
to make stay of1572
embarge1585
cap1590
reprehend1598
prehenda1605
embar1647
nap1665
nab1686
bone1699
roast1699
do1784
touch1785
pinch1789
to pull up1799
grab1800
nick1806
pull1811
hobble1819
nail1823
nipper1823
bag1824
lag1847
tap1859
snaffle1860
to put the collar on1865
copper1872
to take in1878
lumber1882
to pick up1887
to pull in1893
lift1923
drag1924
to knock off1926
to put the sleeve on1930
bust1940
pop1960
vamp1970
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > borrow money from
borrowa1000
touch1760
cadge1863
to sting (someone) for1903
to put the bee on1918
bite1919
to put the sleeve on1931
to put the bite on1933
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > a severe blow
rumble1489
revel1603
rattle1632
rebuke1692
twitcher1771
rattler1812
dingbat1843
wiper1846
a sleeve across the windpipe1952
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) 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.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (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.
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Being blamed of Pausanias, for striuing further then his sleeue would stretch.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D3v See how they gird thee in their sleeues already.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton II. iii. v. 81 Few cut the sleeve by the arm the first trial they make of it.
1860 H. Gouger Two Years' Imprisonm. 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.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 48 I'd advise you to creep up her sleeve again.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby II. 158 But then there's Alice's papa—and that's another pair of sleeves, as we say in France.
1904 H. 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!’
1930 D. Runyon in Sat. Evening 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.
1931 Amer. Speech 6 440 Put the sleeve on, to borrow; to make a touch from a fellow convict.
1934 H. N. Rose Thes. Slang iii. 29/1 Wait'll I put the sleeve on Joe fer some chewin'.
1937 Nature 23 Jan. 130/1 Prof. Furnas's exasperating,..naive volume is altogether another pair of sleeves.
1952 P. G. Wodehouse 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.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 486/1 To 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.
1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 17 Just as it looked as if 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.
a. [After French La Manche.] The English Channel. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > English Channel
South SeaOE
mid-channel1518
sleeve1574
the Channel1588
silver streak1879
1574 W. Bourne Regim. for Sea (1577) xxii. 59 b It is a dangerous place to hit or fal with, to enter into the sleue, comming homewardes out of Spaine or Portugall.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 79 At Bologne..a narrow streit [margin. called the sleeve] ebbing and flowing.
1627 J. Beaulieu Let. 30 May in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 232 Many others have been likewise taken within the sleeve since the return of Captain Pennington.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 265 To fetch a wind..to bring us home into the Sleeve, our English Channel.
1909 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 4/4 When he learned that a Frenchman had aeroplaned the Sleeve.
b. A channel or strait. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun]
meatusc1425
channel1427
canal1542
tide-gate1589
euripe1600
Euripus1601
interflow1610
sleeve1614
tides-way1627
gat1723
tideway1798
lane1835
seaway1866
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §9. 262 If all that part of the Sleeue or Strait [in the Red Sea], had beene by the ebbe of a spring-tide discouered.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 230 I have already shot divers dangerous gulfs,..while others sail in the sleeve of fortune.
1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ii. 45 If Antenor with his ship did thred Th' Illyrian-Sleeve.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank
wingc1400
horn1533
out-wingc1540
flank1548
point1550
sleeve1574
left1693
right1694
pivot flank1786
reverse flank1792
wheeling flank1796
1574 H. G. tr. G. Cataneo Most Briefe Tables Ranckes of Footemen sig. Giiiv It remayneth that wee do intreat howe to make the sleeues of the harkabuzers, and winges of the horsemen.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 41 I would wish all great sleeues of shot to be deuided into many small troupes.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vii. xv. 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 n. ? Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > family Teuthidae > member of (squid)
calamary1567
sea-cat1601
sleeve1611
sleeve-fish1611
squid1613
calaminary1620
sea-clerk1623
sotong1833
pen-fish1835
sea-arrow1851
devil fish1866
sea-sleeve1867
oegopsid1890
chokka1902
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Casseron, the Sleeue, or Calamarie.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xviii. 152 Cuttles (called also sleeves for their shape, and scribes for their incky humour..).
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 855 The Sleave or Ink-fish Lolligo.
1722 J. Jones tr. Oppian Halieuticks 231 Τευδίς, Lolligo, the Sleve, a flying Fish.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ship's pumps > parts of ship's pumps
dale1611
sleeve1613
pump dalea1625
vale1685
cheek1727
1613 S. Purchas 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. technical.
a. (See quot. 1840.)
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1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 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 attributive as sleeve-axle, sleeve-coupling, sleeve-nut (Knight).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > connecting pipe or tube
hogger1820
sleeve1865
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > sleeves, coverings, or screens
spring box1696
jacket1815
faceplate1827
shoe1837
jacketing1842
splasher1848
splash-board1850
sleeve1865
shield1888
sleeving1923
mesh1926
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts
scyphus1722
ceraunite1814
skyphos1847
shaft-hole1852
ostracon1853
scramasax1862
shard1865
ovate1872
omphalos1884
stop-ridge1894
tsung1904
pygmy flint1907
spacer1907
dotaku1908
yuan1912
roughout1913
rostro-carinate1919
shawabti1922
racloir1923
shoe-last1927
sleeve1929
ard1931
proto-biface1967
1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 32 The pump-rods, which are tough wooden rods fitted together by iron sleeves and screws.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.I 5 The two worms are united by a hollow shaft or sleeve.
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 73 A groove is formed around the sleeve in which is a spring pressing the sleeve upwards.
1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. 78 Possibly they were shafted with the aid of horn sleeves.
1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. 107 Axes and adzes hafted in deer-horn sleeves.
1970 W. Bray & D. 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. (See quot.)
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1877 E. W. H. Holdsworth Sea Fisheries 88 It [sc. a seine-net] is always deeper in the middle or ‘bunt’ than at the ‘sleeves’ or ‘wings’, as the ends are called.
d. 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 3c.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > controlling device or process > [noun] > modifying device
sleeve1921
slug1928
1921 W. Aitken Automatic Telephone Syst. I. 45 The copper sleeve and heavy ring on the core of F gives it a greater range of adjustment.
1969 S. F. Smith Telephony & 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.
e. Aeronautics. = drogue n. 3 (b) and (c).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > target for practice
drogue1919
sleeve target1932
sleeve1933
1933 C. K. Stewart Speech Amer. Airman (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Akron) 90 Sleeve, a towed target for anti-aircraft guns to practice shooting at.
1933 S. Spender Poems 45 The air-liner..Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall To point the wind.
1937 Times 12 June 16/4 The target was the usual sleeve, towed behind a Fairey Gordon.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 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.
f. A close-fitting protective cover or case, esp. one for a gramophone record; a slip-case. Cf. record sleeve n. at record n.1 and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > close-fitting
slip-case1930
sleeve1953
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > encasing or sheathing > that which > close-fitting
slip-case1930
sleeve1953
1953 N.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.
1954 Melody Maker 11 Dec. 15/2 His first LP to be released in this country..reached me without sleeve.
1976 W. Goldman Magic iii. ii. 119 She lifted the tone arm off, and..put the record back in the sleeve.
1981 Verbatim Spring 20/2 This is a man's pocket wallet with some plastic credit card sleeves.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
sleeve-band n.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Sleeveband, the band of the sleeve.
sleeve-hole n.
ΚΠ
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (1881) 223 Below the mask..are two sleeve-holes with attached sleeves.
sleeve knot n.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Sleeveknot, a knot of ribband worn on the sleeve.
sleeve-link n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > cuff- or sleeve-link > [noun]
link1807
link-stud1881
sleeve-link1886
cuff-link1897
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 355 In the way of rings, sleeve~links, scarf-pins, and the like.
sleeve-puff n.
ΚΠ
1894 The Season X. 38/1 With elegant vest and sleeve-puffs.
sleeve weight n.
ΚΠ
1860 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) 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. (In sense 7e.)
sleeve target n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > target for practice
drogue1919
sleeve target1932
sleeve1933
1932 Aeroplane 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.
1979 A. Fox Threat Warning Red iii. 27 Sleeve target this afternoon, an AA shoot.
c. (In sense 7f.)
sleeve artist n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > others by medium or technique > artist
Poona painter1822
sleeve artist1977
1977 Times 18 Apr. (Gramophone Suppl.) p. iv/6 Individual sleeve artists such as Roger Dean or Patrick Woodroffe.
sleeve design n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture > types of
emblemc1430
Flanders piece1659
night scenea1798
life study1837
colour picture1856
roundel1879
scrap1880
artist's impression1887
sleeve-picture1959
sleeve design1977
1977 Times 18 Apr. (Gramophone Suppl.) p. iv/7 Jazz musicians..insisted on good sleeve design.
sleeve information n.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > text accompanying
liner note1953
sleeve-note1956
sleeve information1966
1966 Melody 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.
sleeve-picture n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture > types of
emblemc1430
Flanders piece1659
night scenea1798
life study1837
colour picture1856
roundel1879
scrap1880
artist's impression1887
sleeve-picture1959
sleeve design1977
1959 Times 10 Jan. 9/5 A disc with an imaginative if punning sleeve-picture showing wind blowing through barley.
d.
sleeve-defended adj.
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1830 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons (1837) 216 The dame..with sleeve-defended arms, scorns to do less than the best of them.
sleeve-hidden adj.
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1886 Daily News 8 Apr. 5/3 Sleeve-hidden aces!
sleeve-like adj.
ΚΠ
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Manche, a sleeue~like narrowing of the sea betweene two lands.
C2. Special combinations.† sleeve-hand n. Obsolete the wristband or cuff of a sleeve.† sleeve-net n. Obsolete (see quot. 1611).
sleeve bearing n. a form of bearing in which an axle or shaft turns in a lubricated sleeve.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > support or bearing
headstock1688
brass1731
bearing1734
carriage1788
step1814
bearance1826
footstep1836
cod1839
pivot bearing1851
roller bearing1857
thrust-bearing1858
step-plate1869
thrust-bearer1869
needle bearing1870
journal-bearing1875
wall-bearing1875
plain bearing1893
tumbler-bearing1901
split bearing1902
sleeve bearing1907
thrust-box1918
taper roller bearing1930
1907 W. S. Boulton Pract. Coal-mining III. 9 The ‘sleeve’ bearing..is intended to obviate this waste [of oil], and to secure continuously good lubrication.
1967 Times 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.
1975 Sci. 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.
sleeve-board n. a shaped board on which sleeves are ironed or pressed.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements
pressing iron1343
cold press1552
setting-stick?1578
putter1583
putting stick1583
poking-stick1592
pooter1596
poting stick1600
poker1604
goose1606
poking-iron?1606
iron1613
smoothing-iron1627
steel1638
box iron1640
smoothing-boxa1684
press iron1695
ironing board1721
sad iron1759
ironing blanket1774
ironing table1778
flat-iron1810
sleeve-board1826
ironer1833
Italian iron1833
press-board1849
ironing machine1851
goffering-iron1861
skirt-board1861
goffer1865
trouser press1880
ironing board cover1886
trouser presser1888
electric iron1890
press cloth1918
press-pad1924
tie press1926
steam-iron1951
pressing board1969
1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs II. 148 It would have been better for him if he had minded his thimble and sleeve-board than dabble in theology.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 July 7/6 (advt.) Sleeve Boards, regular 75c. Our price 32c.
1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong ii. 31 Trousers, with no fore-and-aft creases.., ironed on a sleeve board.
sleeve-cap n. U.S. the topmost part of a sleeve.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > parts of > other
foresleeve1377
mahoitre1792
sleeve-cap1964
1964 McCall's Sewing in Colour 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.
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 50/1 All too often a knitted sweater is ruined by puckers where the sleeve cap joins the shoulder section.
sleeve-creeper n. one who curries favour by mean or indirect methods (cf. 2f).
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
1809 E. S. Barrett Setting Sun II. 6 Some of them..can discern between a soldier and a sleeve-creeper.
sleeve dog n. a very small Pekinese dog, usually under six pounds in weight.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > toy > Pekingese
sleeve dog1890
Pekinese1902
Peking spaniel1910
Pekie1920
sleeve Pekinese1949
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 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.
1931 A. 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.
1970 P. 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.
sleeve gun n. U.S. a miniature gun which can be concealed in the clothing.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > other small arms
long gun1530
currier1558
crabut1626
long arm1675
bullet-guna1701
hand cannon1752
wall-gun1812
walking-stick gun1823
shoulder gun1824
safety gun1825
gas gun1856
self-cocker1857
bolt action1871
snap action gun1875
saddle gun1886
multibarrel1899
dane gun1900
clip-loader1901
pump-action1923
sleeve gun1944
laser gun1961
phaser1966
magnum1970
1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 146/1 Sleeve gun, a derringer such as a gambler carried up his sleeve.
1971 K. Wheeler Epitaph for Mr. Wynn xxxii. 396 He..took out a snub-barreled Sharps derringer, a sleeve gun.
1974 ‘E. McGirr’ Murderous Journey 153 Have a look at Pout... Sleeve gun and I'd guess an envelope in his breast pocket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > parts of > cuff
cuff1522
sleeve-hand?c1547
wristband1571
handcuff1591
hand wrist1707
?c1547 Procession Edward VI in Leland's De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1770) IV. 323 A Surcoat of the same [crimson velvet], furred with Mynever pure, the Coller, Skirts, and Sleevehands garnished with Ribbons of Gold.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) 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. View more context for this quotation
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > long narrow net
trammel1363
trammel-net1516
sleeve-net1611
trammelling-net1688
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Manche, a sleeue-net, a narrow and long fish-net.
sleeve-note n. an informative or critical note about a gramophone record, printed on the sleeve.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > text accompanying
liner note1953
sleeve-note1956
sleeve information1966
1956 Gramophone Oct. 184/2 Each soloist is given his fair share of the spotlight (the sleeve-notes helpfully identify which plays when).
1980 Early Music 8 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.
sleeve Pekinese n. = sleeve dog n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > toy > Pekingese
sleeve dog1890
Pekinese1902
Peking spaniel1910
Pekie1920
sleeve Pekinese1949
1949 I. 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.
sleeve-valve n. 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; frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > parts of > valves
side valve1886
cutout1905
sleeve-valve1910
overhead valve1921
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [adjective] > specific parts > equipped with
sleeve-valve1910
supercharged1917
turbosupercharged1944
turbocharged1961
1910 Engineering 18 Nov. 688/3 Both Messrs. Panhard and Levassor..and Messrs. Milnes Daimler, Limited..showed examples of the Knight sleeve-valve engine.
1911 Engineering 3 Nov. 590/2 The usual tappet-valves are replaced by a single sleeve-valve.
1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) 69 The sliding sleeve valves.
1914 ‘I. Hay’ Knight on Wheels x The latest mode in such things as sleeve-valves and detachable rims.
1927 C. Lenanton Mrs. Newdigate's Window i. ii ‘Fourteen years old, and almost as silent as ever.’.. ‘Ah! a sleeve-valve engine every time.’
1927 Daily Express 16 Mar. 7 A six-cylinder Silent-Knight Sleeve-valve engine.
1928 Motor Man. (ed. 27) 217 Sleeve valve.—A valve in the form of a cylinder which has a sliding movement instead of the up-and-down movement of the poppet valve.
c1930 Daimler Transmission Syst. 3 The introduction of the Daimler silent sleeve-valve engine in 1908, and its remarkable development in 1925 by the successful substitution of light steel sleeves for the previous cast-iron ones.
1958 Gibson & Tuteur Control System Components xi. 424 A Vickers two-land sleeve valve.
1982 P. Dickinson Last House-party iv. 49 ‘This car makes a remarkable amount of smoke.’ ‘That's the trouble with these sleeve-valve engines.’
sleeve-valved adj.
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1932 World Today Feb. 261/2 The news that Daimlers had taken over the Lanchester Company suggested that it might be a sleeve-valved job.
sleeve-waistcoat n. a waistcoat having sleeves.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > waistcoat > types of
stomacherc1450
wyliecoat1478
waistcoat1585
cheat1688
linder1768
sleeve-waistcoat1825
shawl-waistcoat1840
bawneen1910
slip1933
1825 Ann. Reg. 1824 Chron. 90/1 Pittaway had a sleeve-waistcoat such as he wears now.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. viii. 153 He..stands disclosed in a sleeve-waistcoat of white flannel.
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sleeve garter n. (usually in plural) either of two expandable bands worn (typically by men) around the upper arm over the shirtsleeve to keep the sleeve in place and enable its length to be adjusted; = armband n. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for arms > [noun] > arm-band > types of
armband1738
armband1893
sleeve garter1896
mourning band1954
1896 Boston Daily Globe 15 Dec. (headline) 8/7 Sleeve or stockings garter.
1935 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. 4/6 Of course people wear sleeve garters.
1957 Montana Standard 8 Dec. 16 b/3 Matching sleeve bands, sometimes called sleeve garters, were available at the same place.
1989 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. b4/4 This was not a man with a sleeve garter and an eye shade.
2015 Daily Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 1 Nov. Length of the shirt's arms is as relevant too, so find..sleeve garters to hold the shirt up from the hand.
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sleevev.
/sliːv/, U.S. /sliv/ 1. transitive.
a. To fit (a garment) with a sleeve or sleeves. Cf. sleeved adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > add specific parts to clothing
sleevec1440
collar1601
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 459/1 Sleve garmentys (K. slevyn or settyn on sleuys), manico.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Immanicare,..to sleeue a garment.
b. To clothe or cover (the arm, etc.) with a sleeve. In quot. 1887 figurative.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > other
wimple?c1225
pricka1275
clothe1382
addressa1393
haspc1400
to-cloutc1430
shirtc1450
gownc1485
tuft1535
passement1539
kerchief1600
muff1607
inshirt1611
insmock1611
mode1656
costume1802
slop1803
shawl1812
cravat1818
sur-invest1827
frock1828
pinafore1843
smock1847
panoply1851
underclothe1857
upholster1873
fancy dress1878
sleeve1887
to suit up1912
crinoline1915
1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven li, in Harper's Mag. Feb. 435/1 Although M. Jalais' trees were leafless now, they had sleeved their bent arms with green velvetry of moss.
a. To provide (a body of troops) with a wing or wings. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with wings
wing1591
sleeve1598
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 41 So should I haue 10 ranks for to sleeue the one flanke of the battallion.
1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. C4v Both our Armies Are cast in forme, well fronted, sleeu'd and wing'd.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (intransitive)] > take up position
liec1275
stalla1425
sleeve1598
to draw up1642
to take post1659
concentrate1813
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > form or reform [verb (intransitive)] > fall into line > line up on flanks
sleeve1598
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 40 Hauing passed the straight, to sleeue vp in file.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 73 He gaue the word, that the following companies should sleeue vp by the first.
1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lxxx. 223 The Muskettiers may sleeve up by way of Extraduction.
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1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with sleeve or tube
sleeve1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1449/1 The chisels..have weighted pistons sleeved upon them.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 97 The motors are sleeved on the axles.
Draft additions 1993
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 object.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > processes in gun-making
stock1539
ranforce1547
newel1611
rifle1619
fortify1627
screw1635
chamber1708
reborea1792
flint1803
restocking1805
vent1828
percussionize1832
ream1841
percussion1844
restock1844
retube1846
revent1864
reline1875
sleeve1976
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > operate internal-combustion engine [verb (transitive)] > reduce bore size
sleeve1976
1976 ‘J. Charlton’ Remington Set iv. 26 If they sleeve them down they can get ammo for them under British jurisdiction.
1986 Dirt 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.
1987 Classic 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.
Draft additions 1993
5. To provide with or enclose in a protective cover. Cf. sleeve n. 7f.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover and protect
shrouda1400
fortify1607
loricate1623
protect1839
cocoon1948
mask1961
sleeve1980
1980 Musicians Only 26 Apr. 14/6 Samea will look at each disc before it is sleeved and will play both sides of random samples.
1986 Camera Weekly 110 (advt.) Hand negative cutting and sleeved in sixes.
1988 D. MacCarthy Prodfact 1988 (Brit. Farm Produce Council) 98 Celery will keep best if sleeved and stored in a refrigerator.
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