mitt /mɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
[ Date: 1700-1800 ; Origin: mitten ]
1 . a type of ↑ glove that does not have separate parts for each finger SYN mitten :
ski mitts
an oven mitt (=a thick glove used to protect your hand when you hold hot pans)
2 .
a type of leather ↑ glove used to catch a ball in ↑ baseball
3 . informal especially British English someone’s hand:
Robert’s put his sticky mitts all over it.