batting glove

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   a glove worn by batters in baseball to give a firmer grip on the bat

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Questions about batting glove

What does batting glove mean?

batting glove means "a glove worn by batters in baseball to give a firmer grip on the bat".

Is batting glove a common word?

batting glove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.