to mitten

Examples

• All

• He began threshing his arms back and forth, beating the mittened hands against his sides.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Flying Squirrel asked kindly, placing a mittened hand on White Ash's shoulder.

  Fiction book (1992)

• But for show, I guess, he pops one leather-mittened hand against the other.

  Fiction book (2000)

• After some manipulation, he managed to get the whole bunch between the heels of his mittened hands.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The passengers wake, rub their eyes, and wipe mist off the windows with mittened hands.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The crowd watched as she pressed a pink plastic purse into Adeena's mittened hands.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The women moved close together, held mittened hands, and sang: The circle is open, but unbroken. May the love of the Goddess go ever in our hearts.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Deirdre and I each held one of the baby's mittened hands, making silly, encouraging noises as we lifted her feet into the air and plunked them down all the way up the steep steps at the entranceway.

  Fiction book (1994)

• She had dug clear down to the frozen ground where she began to scoop, examine, and brush away the remaining snow with her mittened hands, tenderly, as if she were examining the snow for jewels.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She mittened her daughter's hands to keep them warm during the winter walk.

Synonyms

G

to glove

vsto mitten

19 3.2

To put covers on your hands to protect them

covers hands or paws without stressing protection or hygiene

Idioms

G

to give the mitten

• Archaic

9.9

To end a relationship with a boyfriend or girlfriend

Compounds

M

murder mitten

9.9

A glove linked to a murder that may hold evidence

How Warm

to mitten

1 9.5

hand wear

2.7

gauntlet

15 8.3

Surface Forms

Etymology