Word Finder - gloves

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An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

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I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.

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A baseball mitt.

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The ability to catch a hit ball.

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Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.

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A condom.

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(with definite article) A challenge from one to another.

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to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

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To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

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He gloved the line drive for the third out.

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To put a glove or gloves on.

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Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.

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To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

She yanked off the gloves and headgear.

I'll get some gloves and try it later.

She turned away and nodded as she pulled her gloves off.

Iron and copper founding, brewing, tanning, and the manufacture of gunpowder, confectionery, heavy iron goods, gloves, boots and shoes and cotton goods are also carried on.

She slapped her gloves together to remove some of the mud.

She rose as she spoke, gloves in hand.

Teacher bought me a lovely new dress and gloves and stockings and collars and grandmother made me warm flannels, and aunt Nannie made me aprons.

I will go to Boston in June and I will buy father gloves, and James nice collar, and Simpson cuffs.

Pulling gloves and a bag from his pocket, he proceeded to collect the grisly specimen.

He was wearing a hoodie and dressed in black, including gloves.

Figures with rubber gloves were turning him over.

Be sure to wear your gloves, and be careful about snakes.

After a breakfast of dry cereal, she donned the work gloves she had brought and retrieved the weed whip from the shed.

The stranger placed silk-lined gloves on the ground and removed her cloak.

She wore headgear and boxing gloves and faced off against a man with the chiseled features of a Greek god, blond hair and sharp blue eyes.

By living in protected houses and wearing gloves and veils at night all the staff escaped malaria except one or two attendants.

Then come establishments for making tobacco, gloves, chocolate, artificial manure, cement, varnish, chemicals and pottery.

The town has railway, machine and electrical works; cloth, gloves and buttons are also manufactured here, and there are spinning-mills.

Hornell has extensive car shops of the Erie railroad, and among its manufactures are silk goods (silk gloves being a specially important product), sash, doors and blinds, leather, furniture, shoes, white-goods, wire-fences, foundry and machine shop products, electric motors, and brick and tile.

Gloves for export are extensively made in Wurttemberg, and Offenbach and Aschaffenburg are renowned for fancy leather wares, such as purses, satchels and the like.

Among its manufactures are sewing machines, boilers, automobiles, bicycles, roller-skates, pianos, gloves and mittens, corsets, flour and dairy products, Borden's condensed milk factory being located there.

The exports are olive oil, hemp, flax, rice, fruit, wine, hats, cheese, steel, velvets, gloves, flour, paper, soap and marble, while the main imports are coal, cotton, grain, machinery, &c. Genoa has a large emigrant traffic with America, and a large general passenger steamer traffic both for America and for the East.

Among those who sought refuge here was a colony of Moravian Brethren; they still occupy a separate quarter of the town, where they carry on manufactures of porcelain stoves and deerskin gloves.

There are manufactures of leather gloves and other goods, and in the neighbourhood barytes and coal mines and extensive market gardens.

During the 17th and 18th centuries Hexham was noted for the leather trade, especially for the manufacture of gloves, but in the 19th century the trade began to decline.

It has three Evangelical and two Roman Catholic churches, a classical school and a teachers' seminary; the manufactures include woollen and cotton goods, hats, morocco leather and gloves, and there is a considerable trade in corn, cattle and wool.

Annonay is the principal industrial centre of its department, the chief manufactures being those of leather, especially for gloves, paper, silk and silk goods, and flour.

Its manufactures are flannel, stockings, gloves and hosiery (for which it was well known in the 18th century).

The chief industries of the town are the manufacture of gloves, carriages, agricultural machinery, beer and bricks; there is a trade in grain both on the Elbe and by rail.

The industries of Caen include timber-sawing, metal-founding and machine-construction, cloth-weaving, lace-making, the manufacture of leather and gloves, and of oil from the colza grown in the district, furniture and other wooden goods and chemical products.

The inhabitants carry on the manufacture of brushes, gloves, stockings and gingerbread, and deal largely in cattle.

The town is flourishing and rapidly increasing, and possesses very extensive wire factories (in connexion with which there are puddling and rolling works), machine works, and manufactories of gloves, baskets, leather, starch, chemicals, varnish, oil and beer.

The chief industries of Erlangen are spinning and weaving, and the manufacture of glass, paper, brushes and gloves.

In 1900 Fulton county produced more than 57%, and Gloversville 38.8%, of all the leather gloves and mittens made in the United States; in 1905 Gloversville produced 2 9.9% of the leather gloves and mittens made in the United States, its products being valued at $5,302,196.

The chief industries are sugar-refining, iron and brick works, and the manufacture of furniture and gloves.

There are distilleries, breweries, tanneries and iron foundries in the city; and manufactures of woollen and leather goods, tweeds, friezes, gloves and chemical manure.

The manufacture of gloves is the leading industry; among the other manufactures are woollen and knit goods, flour, leather, lumber, paper and bricks.

The specialities of Naples are the manufacture of coral, tortoise-shell, kid gloves and macaroni, but it has been growing also as an industrial centre.

Its industries include cotton and wool spinning and weaving, iron-founding, and the manufacture of beer, tobacco, gloves, boots, furniture, &c. There is some trade in fruit and in timber.

Its chief manufactures are glass and porcelain, toys, gloves and chemicals, and the town has tanneries and saw-mills.

Abbots more and more assumed almost episcopal state, and in defiance of the prohibition of early councils and the protests of St Bernard and others, adopted the episcopal insignia of mitre, ring, gloves and sandals.

There are large railway workshops; and the principal branches of industry are the making of locomotives, carriages, tools and machinery, jewelry, furniture, gloves, cement, carpets, perfumery, tobacco and beer.

Otherwise the chief articles of Constantinople's export trade consist of refuse and waste materials, sheep's wool (called Kassab bashi) and skins from the slaughter-houses (in 1903 about 3,coo,000 skins were exported, mostly to America), horns, hoofs, goat and horse hair, guts, bones, rags, bran, old iron, &c., and finally dogs' excrements, called in trade ` pure,' a Constantinople speciality, which is used in preparing leather for ladies' gloves.

Inquiry still takes this shape, and when any part of Disraeli's career is studied, the laces and essences, the rings over gloves, the jewelled satin shirt-fronts, the guitareries and chibouqueries of his early days are never remote from memory.

It manufactures ornaments of various kinds, cigars, leather, paper, playing cards, silver and platina wares, chocolate, soap, woollen cloth, hats, silk, gloves, stockings, ropes and matches.

The town manufactures lace, gloves, sail-cloth and fishing-nets, and has extensive potteries, tanneries, sawmills and foundries, while shipbuilding is also carried on.

The chief industries of Strassburg are tanning, brewing, printing and the manufacture of steel goods, musical instruments, paper, soap, furniture, gloves and tobacco.

A large agricultural trade and manufactures of agricultural implements, linen goods and woollen gloves are carried on.

The manufactures of the duchy are varied, though none is of first-rate importance; woollen goods, gloves, hats, porcelain and earthenware, bricks, sewing-machines, paper, musical instruments, sausages and wooden articles are the chief products.

Jauer manufactures leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and gloves, and is specially famous for its sausages.