handwear - clothing for the hands. hand wear. article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body. glove - handwear: covers the hand and wrist.

Is handwear one word?

noun clothing for the hands, especially gloves.

What is hand glove?

glove, covering for the hand with separate sections for the fingers and thumb, sometimes extending over the wrist or part of the arm. Fingerless gloves, called mitts in colonial America, have five holes through which the fingers and thumb extend. Fast Facts.