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Gantlet

noun

To offer or accept a challenge. Synonym: gauntlet. "Took up the gauntlet"

A glove of armored leather; protects the hand. Synonyms: gauntlet, metal glove.

A glove with long sleeve. Synonym: gauntlet.

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.

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. Synonym: gauntlet.

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"Gantlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... Miss Lavinia where we were going until we were almost there, and she was quite upset, as dining at the two or three hotels and other places affected by the Whirlpoolers implies a careful and special toilet to run the gantlet of society reporters, for every one is somebody in one sense, though in another ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

... Pearce. "He's sure been runnin' a gantlet. His strike stopped work in the diggin's. What do you think of that, Kells? The news spread like smoke before wind. Every last miner in camp has jest got to ...

— The Border Legion • Zane Grey

... Boys, you never heard about a real scrap. It takes war like this to make men fighters.... Listen, now, an' I'll tell you some of the things that come off durin' this German charge. I'll tell them just as they come to mind. There was a boy named Griggs who ran the German barrage—an' that's a gantlet—seven times to fetch ammunition to his pards. Another boy, on the same errand, was twice blown off the road by explodin' shells, an' then went back. Owens told of two of his company who rushed a bunch of Germans, killed eight of them, an' captured their machine-gun. ...

— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

Words linked to "Gantlet" : suit of armour, railroad track, body armour, coat of mail, suit of armor, corporal punishment, body armor, challenge, railroad, metal glove, cataphract, railway, glove