garbage mitts

Noun

garbage mitt (plural garbage mitts)

1. (Canada, Western, in plural, especially Manitoba) A thick hide mitten, with thick pile lining.
   • 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...1981, Peter Gzowski, The Game of Our Lives, Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing, published 2004, page 77