gantlet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gantlet	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for gantlet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gantlet n to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" Synonym(s): gauntlet, gantlet a glove of armored leather; protects the hand Synonym(s): gauntlet, gantlet, metal glove a glove with long sleeve Synonym(s): gauntlet, gantlet 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 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 Synonym(s): gauntlet, gantlet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. A glove. See {Gauntlet}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]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. {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. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. --Palfrey. Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.