glove

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The body may be just an old glove--shabby, maybe; but if the hand inside the glove is alive, what real difference does the shabbiness make?

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  1. noun A fitted covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb.
  2. noun A gauntlet.
  3. noun Sports Any of various coverings for the hand designed to provide protection or improve the grip, as:
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  • Scouts still believe his glove is a ways off from being major league ready, but his bat will certainly make room for him somewhere. —  Beyond the Box Score
  • In order to score you have to round all the bases, a glove is an important accessory in order to play the game right. —  Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
  • Despite being inconsistent in the way the various pieces of the glove are assembled, the actual assembly seems rather durable. —  webBikeWorld.com
  • The only four-fingered pleasure I get from a glove is the one I get from Hamburger Helper. —  The Impulsive Buy
  • Obviously, I'm not advocating a line of thinking that posits, "hey the ginats should just play phelps a third he cant beworse than aurilia", but I'm just not convinced that Aurilia's ability to stand at third base and wear a glove should be a point in his favor. —  McCovey Chronicles
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  1. Middle English, from Old English glōf.

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  1. from Middle English glove, glofe, from Anglo-Saxon glōf (later Icelandic glōfi), a glove; possibly from ge-, a general or collective prefix (see i-), + lōf (not found) = Gothic (Moesogothic) lōfa = Icelandic lōfi, later English loof, the palm of the hand: see loof.
  2. from glove, n.
 

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