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