gantlet
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- gauntlet: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet"
- gauntlet: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
- gauntlet: a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- Alternative spelling of gauntlet
- a heavy protective glove, as of mail for armor or Kevlar for SCUBA; often confused with GAUNTLET, which is a glove with a protective cuff. [nb: to "throw down..." or "take up the gantlet" as representing a challenge is properly known as a "gage"; see DUEL, ORDEAL]