gloving
SayGLUV-ing/ˈɡlʌvɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of glove.
The surgeon is gloving carefully before the operation begins.
Gloving each hand against the cold, she stepped onto the ice.
Note
One spelling does two jobs. As a participle it follows be (she was gloving her hands), and as a gerund it acts like a noun (gloving takes a moment). It carries every verb use of glove, not only pulling gloves on. A fielder gloving the ball catches it in the mitt. A cricketer gloving a delivery touches it with the gloved hand on the bat, which the rules treat as hitting it.
gloving is a form of glove
glove, verb: To put a glove or gloves onto the hand. Full entry
- Spelling
- glove → gloving: drop the e, add -ing
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