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Synonyms for glove

The synonym for glove recorded in this bank is gauntlet, in the sense "a protective covering for the hand, especially a thick armored one". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for glove

gauntletnoun, in the sense "a protective covering for the hand, especially a thick armored one"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for glove.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineObjects

a protective covering for the hand, especially a thick armored one

He pulled on a leather glove before setting the falcon on his arm.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

gauntlet

Same sentence, swapped: He pulled on a leather gauntlet before setting the falcon on his arm.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

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helmet
boot

Where glove turns up in the game

glove is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where glove is the trap

mittnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hand, in the sense "the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb", so glove is there to be ruled out.

Play glove

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so glove reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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