mitt

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  1. noun A type of glove that extends over the hand but only partially covers the fingers.
  2. noun A mitten.
  3. noun Baseball A large, padded, protective leather glove, usually with one sheath for the thumb and one undivided sheath for the remaining fingers, used by catchers and first basemen.
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  • Depends on whether your mitt is inside or outside the barrel.Other hog-related expressions: live high on the hog, root hog or die.
  • It gripped his hand in its heavy mitt, and smiled. —  EBSCOhost
  • It's called the mitt trick and is the worst kind of fraud, meaning a legal one. —  process 10
  • The sound of the warning track dirt crunching beneath by sneakers was just as sweet as the mitt-smack and bat-crack sounds.
  • Miss J: But your hand is like a giant oven mitt, and the whole thing leaves me feeling a little card bored. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Short for mitten.

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  1. Also mit; abbreviation of mitten.
 

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