MITTEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mitten mean? 

• MITTEN (noun)
  The noun MITTEN has 1 sense:

1. glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together

  Familiarity information: MITTEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITTEN (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 

I helped myself also to blankets, mittens, oilskins, caps, and such things, from the slop-chest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The money he had received for his furs and mittens and moccasins began to go.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But Haythorne, with a glance at the stove, pulled on his cap and mittens.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Hats and mittens were flying in the air.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Funny angels in hoods and mittens," said Jo, and set them to laughing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then the importance of the process quickly steadied her, and by the time she had her curls arranged in well-smoothed, drooping clusters, her pink satin frock put on, her long sash tied, and her lace mittens adjusted, she looked as grave as any judge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“And now?” Maud asked cheerfully, when the task was accomplished and I pulled on my mittens.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I am not running away," he replied with child-like defiance, at the same time pulling on his mittens.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Flinging his brands at the nearest of his enemies, the man thrust his smouldering mittens into the snow and stamped about to cool his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)