baseball mitt
3
2.3
- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl mɪt/
:
mitón de béisbol
- I had a baseball mitt and an American Flyer bike
- buy a baseball mitt
- look at the baseball mitt
- old baseball mitt
Examples
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The car is littered with the paraphernalia of boredom and traveling: comic books, candy bar wrappers, and a couple of baseball mitts.
Fiction book (1990) -
He caught the fly ball easily with his new baseball mitt during the game.
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Liz, honey, do you know where I packed my baseball mitt?
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Don't we have more important worries than a baseball mitt?
Fiction book (2002) -
You had a TV, a stereo, a baseball mitt, a tennis racket, a skateboard, a bicycle-- all gone.
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As he turned and pushed himself past a hawthorn bush on the edge of their property, catching his pants, he remembered that he had left behind his baseball mitt.
Fiction book (1992) -
Before the match, she checked her gear, making sure her baseball mitt was in good condition.
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The young boy was excited to receive his first baseball mitt as a birthday present.
Synonyms
880
1.0
A cover for the hand that keeps it warm or protects it
366
3.0
A large glove used by baseball players to catch the ball
8
2.0
A large leather glove that baseball players wear to catch the ball
How Padded
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'baseball mitt' directly names the kind of mitt associated with baseball: knowing 'baseball' and 'mitt' lets a learner infer it is the padded glove used by fielders to catch balls. This noun‑noun composition is a transparent, cross‑linguistically common way to specify type, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the meaning.
Etymology
Baseball mitt comes from mitt, a short form of mitten, because the first baseball gloves were one-piece, padded hand covers that looked like mittens and helped players 'catch' the ball. That's why baseball mitt now means the padded glove used to catch and field balls.