<noun.communication> threw down the gauntlet took up the gauntlet
a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
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a glove with long sleeve
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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
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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
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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["o]pa 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.
{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.
Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. --Palfrey.
Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.
Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. A glove. See {Gauntlet}.
Two Cypriot-flagged ferry boats that occasionally have been running the gantlet of Syrian fire to transport Christians from Jounieh and Byblos to Larnaca, Cyprus, suspended their shuttles again Thursday.
By pleading guilty to financial crimes, Michael Milken has exposed himself to years in prison but avoided another ordeal _ a daily run through the gantlet of cameras outside Manhattan's federal courthouse.
Police said the Lebanese-flagged Timex Star ran the gantlet of radar-controlled Syrian shellfire to deliver its cargo of 660,000 gallons of fuel at Jounieh, 12 miles north of Beirut.
"They operated between Khark Island and Sirri Island running the gantlet of Iraqi air attacks and after the war some of them were detained in European ports for alleged deficiencies in maintenance," he said.
After all, the pact had run the gantlet of hearings, past senators eager to hack away at the treaty, and it emerged with only a few dents.