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sleight
/slaɪt/
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What does sleight mean?
noun
- Cunning; craft; artful practice.
- An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
- Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/slaɪt/
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Now you see he lies still, and the sleight is to land him: reach me that landing-net.
The insight of the born mechanic, the sleight of hand which marks the true experimenter, have in them something magical to the ignorant.
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One of the chief fascinations of gardening is the endless field it affords for skilful sleight of hand, short-cuts, unconventional methods, and experiments.
We may therefore say, as nit is a sleight of hand with ideas and conceptions, so stratagem is a sleight of hand with actions.
The throwing the hides upon the pole was the most difficult work, and required a sleight of hand which was only to be got by long practice.