mitt

¹

[mit]

noun

1. Baseball.

   1. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers.

   2. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen.

2. a mitten.

3. Slang.,  a hand.

4. a glove that leaves the lower ends of the fingers bare, especially a long one made of lace or other fancy material and worn by women.

mitt.

²

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) send.

mitt

/ mɪt /

noun

1. any of various glovelike hand coverings, such as one that does not cover the fingers

2. short for mitten

3. baseball a large round thickly padded leather mitten worn by the catcher See also glove

4. (often plural) a slang word for hand

5. slang,  a boxing glove

Word History and Origins

Origin of mitt¹

First recorded in 1755–65; short for mitten

Origin of mitt²

From the Latin word mitte

Word History and Origins

Origin of mitt¹

C18: shortened from _mitten

Example Sentences

It was real, a “two-hundred-pound tawny-haired lion with golden eyes and soft, round ears and paws the size of baseball mitts.”

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The man who famously told Ottawa to keep its bureaucratic mitts off Alberta’s oil.

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Then he got Harper to fly out on a changeup, pumping a fist into his mitt as he skipped off the field.

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The ball hit off the heel of his mitt.

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Predictably, he couldn’t hold on, the ball hitting the heel of his mitt before falling to the ground for a two-run error.

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