sleeved
(adjective) made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in combination; “sleeved garments”; “short-sleeved”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sleeved (not comparable)
(manufacturing, construction) Having sleeves.
sleeved
simple past tense and past participle of sleeve
Source: Wiktionary
Sleeved, a.
Definition: Having sleeves; furnished with sleeves; -- often in composition; as, long-sleeved.
Sleeve, n.
Definition: See Sleave, untwisted thread.
Sleeve, n. Etym: [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.]
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.
Sleeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleeved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeving.]
Definition: To furnish with sleeves; to put sleeves into; as, to sleeve a coat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 September 2024
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