glove
/ɡlʌv/ verb C2- To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. · He gloved the line drive for the third out.
- To put a glove or gloves on. · Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
- 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.
He/she/it gloves · Past gloved · Past participle gloved · -ing form gloving
Verb forms
- Base form
- glove
- He/she/it
- gloves
- Past
- gloved
- Past participle
- gloved
- -ing form
- gloving
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove.
You examined the room, I presume, to see if the intruder had left any traces—any cigar-end or dropped glove or hairpin or other trifle?”
“Ah, I shall know how to make you leave your home!” replied Albert, clasping in his convulsed grasp the glove, which Monte Cristo did not lose sight of.
Albert understood the allusion in a moment, and was about to throw his glove at the count, when Morrel seized his hand, while Beauchamp and Château-Renaud, fearing the scene would surpass the limits of a challenge, held him back.
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