gloves

(noun): An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
(noun): A baseball mitt.
(noun): The ability to catch a hit ball.
(noun): A condom.
(noun): (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
(verb): To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
(verb): To put a glove or gloves on.
(verb): To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
He gloved the line drive for the third out.
Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.