'Gantlet' definitions:
Definition of 'gantlet'
(from WordNet)
noun
To offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" [syn: gauntlet, gantlet]
noun
A glove of armored leather; protects the hand [syn: gauntlet, gantlet, metal glove]
noun
A glove with long sleeve [syn: gauntlet, gantlet]
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
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 [syn: gauntlet, gantlet]
Definition of 'Gantlet'
From: GCIDE
- Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. [Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to l["o]pa to run. See Gate a way, and Leap.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. [1913 Webster]
- Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gantlet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- battle cry,
- bid to combat,
- brass knuckles,
- cesta,
- cestus,
- challenge,
- confinement,
- dare,
- defi,
- defy,
- dismemberment,
- double dare,
- estrapade,
- gage,
- gage of battle,
- galleys,
- gauntlet,
- glove,
- handwear,
- hard labor,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kid gloves,
- kids,
- martyrdom,
- mittens,
- mitts,
- mousquetaire gloves,
- mousquetaires,
- muff,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- railriding,
- rebel yell,
- rock pile,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture,
- war cry,
- war whoop