to offer or accept a challenge; threw down the gauntlet; took up the gauntlet

[ Syn: gauntlet ]

a glove of armored leather; protects the hand

[ Syn: gauntlet , metal glove ]

a glove with long sleeve

[ Syn: 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

[ Syn: gauntlet ]