noun
- To offer or accept a challenge.
- usage: "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet"
- synonyms: gantlet
- A glove of armored leather; protects the hand.
- synonyms: gantlet, metal glove
- A glove with long sleeve.
- synonyms: gantlet
- 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.
- synonyms: gantlet
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