gantlet

(n) to offer or accept a challenge
- threw down the gauntlet
- took up the gauntlet
gauntlet,
(n) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand metal glove, gauntlet,
(n) a glove with long sleeve gauntlet,
(n) 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
(n) 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,

gauntlet metal glove