noun

1. a band or fold at the end of a sleeve, either sewed in or detachable
2. a turned-up fold at the bottom of a trouser leg
3. the part of a glove covering the wrist or forearm
4. a handcuff: usually used in pl.
5. any of various bandlike or folded parts, as of a shoe or golf bag: esp., the inflatable arm wrap of a sphygmomanometer

Etymology: by sense extension < ME cuffe, coffe, hand covering, glove < ? ML cuffia, head covering, parallel with OFr coife: see coif

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Etymology: Early ModE < ? cuff (in orig. sense “glove”)

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