glove
Plural: gloves
Noun
- the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
- handwear: covers the hand and wrist
- boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing
- An item of clothing, 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
Verb Forms: gloved, gloving, gloves
- To cover with or furnish with a glove or gloves.
- 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.
Examples
- Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
- He gloved the line drive for the third out.
- He tried to glove his strategy, preventing his opponent from seeing his potential plays.
- I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
- Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
- The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
- to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
Origin / 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”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.
Scrabble Score: 9
glove: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglove: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glove: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary