mitt

¹ American  

[mit] / mɪt /

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.

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mitt. ² American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) send.

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mitt British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of mitt¹

First recorded in 1755–65; short for mitten

Origin of mitt.¹

From the Latin word mitte

Example Sentences

She sniffed them, wafting the smell toward her nose with a mitt.

From Literature

It’s a familiar problem to anyone who had a baseball mitt as a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We reinvented the bag mitt but Paul takes care of all that," Frank says.

From BBC

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

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