different between glove vs doeskin

English

Etymology

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English gl?f, *gl?fe, *gl?fa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form gl?fan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *gal?fô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *l?fô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?p-, *l?p-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?v, IPA^(key): /?l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Noun

glove (plural gloves)

1. An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

2. A baseball mitt.
3. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.

4. (slang) A condom.
5. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.

   to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

Synonyms

• handglove (India)
• handshoe (nonstandard)

Translations

Verb

glove (third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved)

1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

   He gloved the line drive for the third out.

2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.

   Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
3. (cricket) To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

Derived terms

See also

• cot
• gauntlet
• handshoe
• mitt
• mitten

Anagrams

• Vogel, vogle, volge

English

Etymology

doe +? skin.

Noun

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

1. (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
2. (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
   • 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 [3]:

     In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

Hyponyms

• skin