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mitt

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Clothes, Baseball
mitt /mɪt/ noun [countable]  1 DCCa type of glove that does not have separate parts for each finger 连指手套,独指手套 SYN mitten ski mitts 滑雪防护手套 an oven mitt (=a thick glove used to protect your hand when you hold hot pans) 烤箱隔热手套2. mitt.jpg DSBa type of leather glove used to catch a ball in baseball 棒球手套3 informal especially British EnglishHBH someone’s hand  Robert’s put his sticky mitts all over it. 罗伯特用黏糊糊的双手将它捂了个严严实实。
Examples from the Corpus
mittAnd then there's this garish white comic poster of Rosie O'Donnell in a baseball mitt.He parked and when I got out he was holding two baseball mitts and a hardball.The thought made her laugh again; she put her black mitts to her cheeks, stinging with cold and sun.boxing mittsWould you keep your grubby mitts to yourself!He is putting on his protection, a long mitt made of sacking up to his elbow.Cynthia arrived, wearing a pair of blue oven mitts and carrying a large stew pot.She was damp, she was sore from scrubbing with the shower mitt, her hair hung in rats' tails.I could see his fingers working signals behind the mitt so intensely the batter had to have seen too.Miriam presiding over a display of woven baskets and woolly mitts - some hopes!
Origin mitt (1700-1800) mitten
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mitt
mitt /mɪt/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1700-1800
 Origin: mitten
1. a type of glove that does not have separate parts for each finger
   SYN  mitten:
    ski mitts
    an oven mitt (=a thick glove used to protect your hand when you hold hot pans)
2.
  a type of leather glove used to catch a ball in baseball
3. informal especially British English someone’s hand:
    Robert’s put his sticky mitts all over it.


mittBrE /mɪt/ 🔊NAmE /mɪt/ 🔊 noun = mitten (in baseball 棒球) a large thick leather glove worn for catching the ball 接球手套;棒球手套 [usually plural] (slang) a hand I'd love to get my mitts on one of those. 我很想得到一个那样的东西。🔊🔊