glove

plural gloves

1. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

   I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.

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   The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.

2. A baseball mitt.
3. figurativelyball gamesThe ability to catch a hit ball.

   Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.

4. slangA condom.
5. with definite articleA challenge from one to another.

   to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

present singular third person gloves · participle present gloving · participle past gloved · past gloved

1. transitiveball gamesTo catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

   He gloved the line drive for the third out.

2. transitiveTo put a glove or gloves on.

   Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.

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   After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

3. ball gamesTo touch (a delivery) with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.