[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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"opa 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.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
                                                  --palfrey.
      1913 webster

   note: written also, but less properly, gauntlet.
         1913 webster
see also:
gate leap to run the gantlet 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gantlet \gant"let\, n.
   a glove. see gauntlet.
   1913 webster
see also:
gauntlet 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gantlet
     n 1: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet";
          "took up the gauntlet" syn: gauntlet
     2: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand syn: gauntlet,
         metal glove
     3: a glove with long sleeve syn: gauntlet
     4: 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: 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 syn: gauntlet
see also:
gauntlet metal glove 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

45 moby thesaurus words for "gantlet":
   battle cry, bid to combat, brass knuckles, cesta, cestus,
   challenge, confinement, dare, defi, defy, dismemberment,
   double dare, estrapade, gage, gage of battle, galleys, gauntlet,
   glove, handwear, hard labor, impalement, imprisonment,
   incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, kid gloves, kids, martyrdom,
   mittens, mitts, mousquetaire gloves, mousquetaires, muff,
   penal servitude, picketing, railriding, rebel yell, rock pile,
   strappado, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, torment, torture,
   war cry, war whoop

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