English to English
noun
- to offer or accept a challenge
Threw down the gauntlet.
Took up the gauntlet.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
source: WordNet 3.0
- a glove with long sleeve
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- A glove. See Gauntlet.
source: Webster 1913
