sleeve
/sliv/ verb C2- To fit and attach a sleeve to an upper garment (e.g. to a shirt, blouse, sweater, jacket, coat, etc.) or to a folder.
- To hide something up one's sleeve.
He/she/it sleeves · Past sleeved · Past participle sleeved · -ing form sleeving
Verb forms
- Base form
- sleeve
- He/she/it
- sleeves
- Past
- sleeved
- Past participle
- sleeved
- -ing form
- sleeving
From the library
“Ah,” said he, “they have sent some fencing-master to fight with me.” The president, without answering, approached the witness who held the lantern, and raising his sleeve, showed him two wounds he had received in his arm; then opening his coat, and unbuttoning his waistcoat, displayed his side, pierced with a third wound.
“Or I my brains?” wailed the Scarecrow, wiping the tears from his eyes with his coat sleeve.
By a man’s finger nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt cuffs—by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed.
The man’s sleeve had slipped up and there was the branded mark of the lodge upon his forearm.
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