Gantlet
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
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
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the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place
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a glove with long sleeve
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a glove of armored leather
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to offer or accept a challenge
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- gauntlet
- plural
- Gantlets
- possessive
- Gantlet's
- pluralpossessive
- Gantlets'