Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The making of gloves; the occupation of a glover.

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  • verb Present participle of glove.

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Examples

  • They also made the decision to remove "gloving," which was something some people actually did deliberately to increase their 'redlinining" or red balloons indicating a negative rating for bad conduct.

    Will Wright on Spore / Sims / SL 2007

  • They bought $5,000 "precaution carts" to make washing, gloving and gowning easy and efficient.

    Wray Herbert: Hand Washing: A Deadly Dilemma Wray Herbert 2012

  • They bought $5,000 "precaution carts" to make washing, gloving and gowning easy and efficient.

    Wray Herbert: Hand Washing: A Deadly Dilemma Wray Herbert 2012

  • They bought $5,000 "precaution carts" to make washing, gloving and gowning easy and efficient.

    Wray Herbert: Hand Washing: A Deadly Dilemma Wray Herbert 2012

  • As Ian Chappell says on Sky, that's what happens when you don't rotate the strike, because it allows a bowler to line you up over a period of time.13th over: New Zealand 66-2 Ryder 25, Taylor 4 Taylor gets off the mark from his 11th delivery, gloving a short one to fine leg for four.

    Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

  • They bought $5,000 "precaution carts" to make washing, gloving and gowning easy and efficient.

    Wray Herbert: Hand Washing: A Deadly Dilemma Wray Herbert 2012

  • The nurse blushed, nodded, stripped off her gloves and headed to the sink to wash her hands, before gloving again and going straight to the bedside.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • The nurse blushed, nodded, stripped off her gloves and headed to the sink to wash her hands, before gloving again and going straight to the bedside.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • I think the Democratic Party has done ENOUGH of turning their cheeks and kit gloving the Clintons.

    Vilsack says it's over 2008

  • "Oftentimes the answers come in simple things, like gloving the ball and throwing it where it needs to be thrown," Bob Carpenter chimed in.

    Rob Dibble's had enough of the Nats' defense 2010

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