glove

cotton gloves with grips

Meanings

Noun

  • An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
  • A baseball mitt.
  • The ability to catch a hit ball.
  • A condom.
  • A challenge from one to another.

Verb

  • To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
  • To put a glove or gloves on.
  • 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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Origin

  • , 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-. Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive, Icelandic glófi ("glove"). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe. More at loof.

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