eng: gantlet

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Meaning
means	(noun) to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" gantlet, gauntlet
means	(noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand metal glove, gantlet, gauntlet
means	(noun) a glove with long sleeve gantlet, gauntlet
means	(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 gantlet
means	(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 gauntlet, gantlet