Definitions for glove

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Spelling: [gluhv]

IPA: /glʌv/

Glove is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in glove (eglov).

Definitions for glove

noun

1. a covering for the hand made with a separate sheath for each finger and for the thumb.
2. boxing glove.
3. baseball glove.
4. gauntlet1 .

Idioms

1. hand and glove. hand (def 55).
2. handle with kid gloves. kid gloves (def 2).
3. take up the glove. gauntlet1 (def 4).
4. throw down the glove. gauntlet1 (def 5).

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a glove; provide with gloves.
2. to serve as a glove for.

Origin of glove

before 900; Middle English; Old English glōf; cognate with Old Norse glōfi

Examples for glove

Kimberlin, who looks and softly speaks like a miniaturized clone of David Strathairn, could not lay a glove on his tormenter.

When you put your glove down on the kitchen counter a half hour ago in order to make a turkey sandwich for yourself?

He cut his glove on the blade and stepped for a replacement.

This tribute video may be circulating now but Jeter still has the next couple of months before he hangs up his glove for good.

I had to store it in my glove box when I went to my son's school for track meets and teacher conferences.

I asked if the muff, as well as the glove, had been searched carefully.

Yes, it is our business to do so; but the glove has not been of much assistance to us.

By the way, how did he get your glove, or is that merely brag on his part?

No one was observing him, and the glove was immediately concealed.

"Yes," answered Dorothy, buttoning her glove and glancing at the clock.