name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A mitten
2. 2
   the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball wordnet
3. 3
   An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
4. 4
   the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb wordnet
5. 5
   A hand. especially, in-plural, informal

   "Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!"

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname

Synonyms

All synonyms

baseball glovebaseball glovebaseball mittglovehandhand

Example

More examples

"Tom burned himself badly when he took the pie pan out of the oven without using an oven mitt."

Etymology

Clipping of mitten.

Related phrases

baseball mittbig mitt mancatcher's mittgarbage mittoven mittwashing mittbaseball mittoven mitt

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