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/bˈɑksɪŋ gləv/ Listen

noun

Boxing n. The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.

Boxing glove, a large padded mitten or glove used in sparring for exercise or amusement.

Glove n.

A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.

A boxing glove.

Boxing glove. See under Boxing.

Glove fight, a pugilistic contest in which the fighters wear boxing gloves.

Glove money or Glove silver.

(a)

A tip or gratuity to servants, professedly to buy gloves with.

(b)

(Eng. Law.) A reward given to officers of courts; also, a fee given by the sheriff of a county to the clerk of assize and judge's officers, when there are no offenders to be executed.

Glove sponge (Zool.), a fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis).

To be hand and glove with, to be intimately associated or on good terms with. "Hand and glove with traitors."

To handle without gloves, to treat without reserve or tenderness; to deal roughly with. (Colloq.)

To take up the glove, to accept a challenge or adopt a quarrel.

To throw down the glove, to challenge to combat.

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Etymology of 'Boxing glove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Boxing glove" Quotes from Famous Books

... historian, and I know that bullies thrive best in an atmosphere of meekness. As long as this military system lasts you must discourage the mailed fist by showing that you will meet it with something harder than a boxing glove. We do not think it good to admit into the code of the twentieth century that a great national bully may still with impunity squeeze the blood out of its small ...

— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... Rashkind drew from his waistcoat pocket what appeared to be a six-ounce boxing glove, but which subsequently proved to be the chamois covering of his gold watch, the gift of Rambam Lodge, No. 142, I. O. M. A. This Mr. Rashkind consulted ...

— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass