GANTLET

Definition of GANTLET

  1. (noun)to offer or accept a challenge
  2. (noun)a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
  3. (noun)a glove with long sleeve
  4. (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
  5. (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