gloved

1. 1
   adjective

   Having the hands covered or fitted with a glove or gloves.

   The surgeon's gloved fingers worked carefully around the incision.

   He arrived gloved and scarfed against the freezing wind.

   Oppositebare, ungloved, barehanded

   Note

   A dress word that sits happily in pairs and lists. In Norman Lindsay's Redheap (1930), Millie appears "hatted and gloved." It is not comparable, because a hand is gloved or it is not, so it takes no "more" or "most." Before a noun it describes a state, as in a gloved hand, while the verb form reports an action: the catcher gloved the ball.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of glove.

   The catcher gloved the line drive just before it reached the fence.

   The surgeon had gloved before approaching the patient on the table.

   Note

   Three different actions share this one spelling. A fielder who gloved the ball caught it in a mitt. A nurse who gloved her hands put gloves on. A cricket batsman who gloved a delivery touched it with the glove while that hand was on the bat, and the rules count this as hitting it. All three take an object, so the context, not the grammar, tells them apart.

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