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 balls.
Compare mitt (def 1).
Historical Examples
“Five o’clock,” he cried as he threw the baseball glove into the quickening grass.
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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