gantlet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun to offer or accept a challenge
    gauntlet.
    • threw down the gauntlet
    • took up the gauntlet
  2. noun a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
    gauntlet; metal glove.
  3. noun a glove with long sleeve
    gauntlet.
  4. noun 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
  5. noun 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
    gauntlet.

WordNet

Gant"let noun
Wordforms
Gantlet is corrupted fr gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw gatlopp, orig , adjective running down adjective lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run See Gate adjective way, and Leap
Definitions
  1. A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.
    Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.
    ✍ Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.
Gant"let noun
Definitions
  1. A glove. See Gauntlet.

Webster 1913