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MITTEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mitten" is a kind of...):
glove (handwear: covers the hand and wrist)
Context examples:
The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He pulled on a pair of mittens, put on his cap, and ascended the companion-stairs, while I followed his suggestion by going to bed.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I look at the woman. Her mitten is off, and the big Colt's revolver is in her hand. Three times she shoot, quick, just like that.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
To such extremity were the gods driven that they ate the soft-tanned leather of their mocassins and mittens, while the dogs ate the harnesses off their backs and the very whip-lashes.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As night drew on, the clouds darkened and the wind freshened, so that when Maud and I ate supper it was with our mittens on and with me still steering and eating morsels between puffs.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Also, the man freezes his thumb till the end is like to come off, and he must wear a large thumb on his mitten to keep it warm.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
His stout mittens temporarily protected his hands, and he scooped live coals into the air in all directions, until the campfire took on the semblance of a volcano.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When the sled was lashed and the complaining dogs harnessed, he returned into the cabin for his mittens.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
A whisper of the gold-rush had reached his ears, and he had come with several bales of furs, and another of gut-sewn mittens and moccasins.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The man cannot take off his mitten. The stranger-man shoots at him again, and this time the bullet goes by in the air. Then the man takes the mitten in his teeth and pulls it off. But his hand is frozen and he cannot hold the revolver, and it fails in the snow.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
