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Mitt   /mɪt/   Listen
Mitt

noun
1.
The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.  Synonyms: hand, manus, paw.  "He extended his mitt"
2.
The handwear used by fielders in playing baseball.  Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, glove.






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"Mitt" Quotes from Famous Books



... down his newspaper in honest indignation as Nick had wickedly meant he should. "Is that so! Why, we was wrastling round—me and him, see—last night on the floor, and what does he do, he raises his mitt and hands me a wallop in the stomick it like to knock the wind out of me. ...
— Gigolo • Edna Ferber

... stipulated simply, extending his palm. "Either you're crazy or I am—but in the mitt, friend, and I'll run the car right into that ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance

... The thumbless mitt or wristlet requires one half hank of knitting-yarn, gray, with No. 2 Red Cross needles or No. 11 or No. 12 steel needles. Nine stitches measure one inch. Cast on 48 stitches and knit 2, purl 2, for 12 inches; bind off and sew up, leaving an opening for the ...
— Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet • Anonymous

... management of the most trivial social affair. What had he done that this measure should be constantly graduated out to him? Well, things would be different. He would "can" personality and take up the "big mitt" of public things. But how was this revolution in the private disposition of a man to be accomplished? He had discovered the result, but not the cause; so he began rooting among the sage brush of the sand downs for the foundation stone ...
— Skookum Chuck Fables - Bits of History, Through the Microscope • Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)



Words linked to "Mitt" :   maulers, arteria metacarpea, human being, left hand, left, homo, baseball equipment, meat hooks, metacarpal vein, right, digital arteries, vena metacarpus, right hand, ball, finger, baseball mitt, hand, metacarpus, arm, fist, extremity, arteria digitalis, thenar, hooks, man, human, palm, clenched fist, vena intercapitalis, intercapitular vein, metacarpal artery



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