Definition of "glove"

glove

/ɡlʌv/

noun
plural gloves
1. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
2. A baseball mitt.
3. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
verb
third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved
1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
  Quotations
  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: Hodder and Stoughton
3. (cricket) To 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.

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