Baseball glove
a padded, leather covering for the hand, having a pocket in the area over the palm, webbing between the sections for the thumb and forefinger, and either separate sections for each finger or sections for more than one finger: used by baseball players in the field for catching batted or thrown b-lls.
compare mitt (def 1).
historical examples
“five o’clock,” he cried as he threw the baseball glove into the quickening gr-ss.
a son of the city herman gastrell seely
and that baseball glove, that big catcher’s mitt that marmaduke always wanted–do you ‘spouse that’s still in the store?
half-past seven stories robert gordon anderson
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