glove
Forms
- Plural
- gloves
- present (v1)
- glove
- past (v2)
- gloved
- past participle (v3)
- gloved
- present participle
- gloving
- 3rd person singular
- gloves
Definitions
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.
- The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
2.A baseball mitt.
3.The 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.A condom.(slang)
1.To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
- He gloved the line drive for the third out.
2.To put a glove or gloves on.
- Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
- After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3527
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”).