batting glove
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- noun
- US
:
guante de bateo
- "We put it together and determined that each team should have to go back to its 1995 helmet design," he says. ... Joshua Edney notes that Jermaine Dye has his initials on his batting gloves.
- wears batting gloves
- adjusted my batting gloves
Examples
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He put on his batting gloves to improve his grip on the bat before stepping up to the plate.
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The Cardinals' reserve Matt Carpenter does not wear batting gloves, which is unusual but not as rare as the style the Giants' Hunter Pence prefers.
Blog text (9) -
His batting gloves were white.
Blog text (22) -
Hoping to get the Marlins out of a losing streak, he headed into the cage wearing nothing but socks, spikes, and batting gloves, and proceeded.
Blog text (20) -
I stepped out to regain my composure, squeezed the bat between my hands, adjusted my batting gloves, and stepped back in.
Fiction book (1996) -
Paul Lukas, the sports style expert at Uni-Watch.com, wrote in June that Pence was the only active major leaguer who wore just one batting glove.
Blog text (9) -
I zipped open my bag and checked everything one more time: mitt, shoes, batting gloves, new shoes, lucky tee shirt, the small crystal Meredith gave me for luck.
Fiction book (1996) -
The ex-baseball star was charged in a federal indictment with selling "World Series-related" baseball memorabilia and equipment, including "gloves, balls, bats, batting gloves, a helmet, shoes, ticket stubs, and magazines" that were part of his bankrupt estate, according to court papers.
Blog text (29) -
The young player adjusted his batting gloves to ensure a secure hold while facing the pitcher.
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To protect his hands from blisters, he always wore his favorite batting gloves during practice sessions.
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'batting' (the act of hitting in baseball/softball) + 'glove' (a hand covering): a glove used for batting. This compound follows a transparent noun + noun pattern common across languages and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words and basic sports vocabulary.
Etymology
The compound noun batting glove comes from the simple idea of a glove used while batting. The picture is of a batter wearing a glove to stop the bat from slipping and to protect the hands, so it means 'a glove a batter wears to help hold the bat and protect the hands'.