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Mitt vs Milt - What's the difference?

mitt | milt |

As a pronoun mitt

is my, mine (things owned ).

As a noun milt is

the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

As a verb milt is

to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

mitt

English

(wikipedia mitt)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mitten
  • An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  • (informal, especially in plural) A hand.

    • Derived terms

    * catcher's mitt * oven mitt

    Related terms

    * mitten

    See also

    * glove ----

    milt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  • *, II.12:
    • we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt , another in the braine.
  • * 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    • Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  • Fish semen.

    • Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * *

    Related terms

    * *

    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.