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glover

glover

6.7
A person who makes or sells gloves
  • noun
  • /ˈɡlʌvər/
translation icon : guantero
  • After training as an apprentice, he became a skilled glover, known for his high-quality products.

Examples

  • The glover carefully measured the customer's hand before crafting the perfect fit.

  • The binders, skilled in cutting and paring leather, might have become glovers and cobblers.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Whoa look at this Grandpa she's tighter than a glover.

    Bootleggers (1974)

  • Within that compulsion is the question of how someone like Shakespeare (a glover's son) became learned in law.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The income line for the glovers (Fig. 5) shows the revenue boom for their twenty to twenty-five shops, a phenomenal increase of 916.67% between 1538 and 1543.

    Academic text (1990)

  • She visited the local glover to find a stylish pair of gloves for the winter.

Synonyms

kidder
vsglover
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A person who makes gloves from soft goat leather

refers only to making or selling gloves without specifying material or other goods

Surface Forms

glover singular
glovers plural

Morphology

glover = glove (transparent) = glove + er

The word is transparently formed from 'glove' + '-er' to mean a person associated with gloves, especially someone who makes or sells them.

Etymology

Glover is simply glove plus -er, where -er means 'one who does something', like in baker or writer, so a glover is 'a person who makes or sells gloves'.