- GAUNTLET Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GAUNTLET is a glove worn with medieval armor to protect the hand How to use gauntlet in a sentence Did you know?
- GAUNTLET Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Gauntlet definition: a medieval glove, as of mail or plate, worn by a knight in armor to protect the hand See examples of GAUNTLET used in a sentence
- GAUNTLET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
ˈɡɔnt·lət, ˈɡɑnt- Add to word list a long thick glove (= covering for the hand), worn for protection (Definition of gauntlet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- GAUNTLET definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
8 meanings: 1 a medieval armoured leather glove 2 a heavy glove with a long cuff 3 → See take up the gauntlet 4 → See throw Click for more definitions
- Gauntlet - definition of gauntlet by The Free Dictionary
The word gauntlet used in the idiom to throw down the gauntlet comes from the Old French word gantelet, a diminutive of gant, "glove " (The idiom makes reference to the medieval custom of throwing down a glove in challenging an adversary to combat )
- gauntlet noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of gauntlet noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- Running the gauntlet - Wikipedia
Running the gauntlet Gauntlet in Russia, 1845 "Running the gauntlet" refers to taking part in a form of corporal punishment in which one or more individuals is forced to run between two rows of people who attack them with weapons Metaphorically, the term is also used to convey a public trial that one must overcome
- gauntlet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment A simultaneous attack from two or more sides [John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors
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