Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Lank sleeve
subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. LANK SLEEVE. The empty sleeve of a one armed man. A fellow with a LANK SLEEVE; a man who has lost an arm.
