mitt /mɪt/
noun [countable][
Date: 1700-1800;
Origin: mitten]
1. a type of
glove that does not have separate parts for each finger
Synonym : 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
baseball3. informal especially British English someone’s hand:
Robert’s put his sticky mitts all over it. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲