sleev - What does it mean?

Verb

(nonstandard) (simplified spelling of sleeve)

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|year=1789 |year_published=2006 |edition=Digitized |editor= |author=John Bell |title=Bell's Classical Arrangment of Fugitive Poetry |chapter=Stanza of Spenser citation |genre= |publisher=Univ of Michigan |isbn= |page=105 |passage=His sweeping scythe the white-sleevd mower plies, … }}

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|year=1793 |year_published=2009 |edition=HTML |editor=Lynda Pratt |author=Robert Southey |title=The Collected Letters of Robert Southey |chapter=Letter 40 citation |genre= |publisher=Univ of Maryland |isbn= |page= |passage=By thy full sleevd black gown — by thy still blacker heart. / Where Genius nor Virtue possess one small part }}

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|year= |year_published=2004 |edition= |editor=Eric Robinson, David Powell |author=John Clare |title=Major Works |chapter=Poems of the Helpston Period citation |genre= |publisher=Oxford Univ Press |isbn=9780192805638 |page=69 |passage=And short sleevd gown that half to guess reveals … }}

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|year=1897 |year_published=2007 |edition=Digitized |editor= |author=Thomas Hoccleve, Sir Israel Gollancz |title=Early English Text Society: Issue 72 |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher=Univ of California |isbn= |page=xii |passage=… responsibility of long-sleevd retainers defending their lord when he's attackt in the street,... }}