SLEEVE

See Sleave, untwisted thread.

The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

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

A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

A long bushing or thimble, as in the nave of a wheel.

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.

To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.