"garbage mitt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: garbage mitts [plural]
Etymology: A type of mitt once commonly seen worn in cold weather by garbagemen. Head templates: {{en-noun}} garbage mitt (plural garbage mitts)
  1. (Western Canada, especially Manitoba, chiefly in the plural) A thick hide mitten, with thick pile lining. Tags: Canada, Western, in-plural
    Sense id: en-garbage_mitt-en-noun-E7TcmNQS Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header, Manitoba English

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  "etymology_text": "A type of mitt once commonly seen worn in cold weather by garbagemen.",
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          "ref": "1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77",
          "text": "Western kids often wore what they called “garbage mitts”—padded for heavy duty by city workers—instead of hockey gloves; Maritimers used their father’s work gauntlets, with heavy leather up the wrists. But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Cara Hedley, Twenty Miles, Toronto: Coach House Books, published 2007, page 188",
          "text": "She looked like a man, like a miniature version of Buck wearing his old red toque with the ragged pompom, his garbage mitts stained with fish blood, the army green parka.",
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          "ref": "2005, Jon Paul Fiorentino, “Electrolux”, in Asthmatica, Toronto: Insomniac Press, page 29",
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