Definition of gauntlets Gauntlets
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What does gauntlets mean?
Wiktionary 
- gauntlets (Noun)
Plural of gauntlet.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| gauntlet - a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | ||
| gantlet, metal glove | ||
| glove handwear: covers the hand and wrist | ||
| gauntlet - 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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| gauntlet - a glove with long sleeve | ||
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| gauntlet - to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" | ||
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Wiktionary
- gauntlet (Noun)
Protective armor for the hands. - gauntlet (Noun)
Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment. - gauntlet (Noun)
Simultaneous attack from two or more sides. - gauntlet (Noun)
Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment. - gauntlet (Noun)
A temporary convergence of two parallel railroad tracks allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gauntlet (n.)
See Gantlet. - gauntlet (n.)
A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds. - gauntlet (n.)
A long glove, covering the wrist. - gauntlet (n.)
A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gauntlet
gänt′let, n. the iron glove of armour, formerly thrown down in challenge: a long glove covering the wrist.—p.adj. Gaunt′leted, wearing a gauntlet or gauntlets.—n. Gaunt′let-guard, a guard of a sword or dagger, protecting the hand very thoroughly.—Run the gauntlet (see Gantlet).—Throw down, Take up, the gauntlet, to give, to accept a challenge. [Fr. gantelet, double dim. of gant, a glove, of Scand. origin; cf. Old Sw. vante, a glove, Ice. vöttr, a glove, Dan. vante.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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gauntlet
(See GIRT-LINE.) Also, a rope round the ship to the lower yard-arms, for drying scrubbed hammocks. Of old the term denoted the armed knight's iron glove. (See GANT-LOPE, for running the gauntlet.)
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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gauntlet
(Fr. gantelet). A large glove of mail; a covering for the hand with plates of metal on the back, worn as a part of the defensive armor in ancient times. A long glove, covering the wrist; as, a riding-gauntlet. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge; to defy.
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gauntlet
A kind of military punishment; the gantelet used in the expression to run the gauntlet. See GANTLOPE.
Wikipedia 
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A gauntlet is a protective covering that is used in some gloves and mittens. A gauntlet protects the wrists and the lower part of the forearm. Gloves or mittens for motorcycle drivers, snowmobile drivers, construction workers, forestry workers, and mountain climbers often have gauntlets. The gauntlet helps to protect the wrist and forearm from cold, and from being scraped or cut if there is an accident.
How they are made.
The gauntlet of a glove or mitten is usually made from a material that is similar to the protective fabric or material used elsewhere on the glove or mitten. A pair of leather motorcycle gloves with gauntlets will usually have leather gauntlets. A pair of insulated nylon snowmobilers' mittens with gauntlets will usually have gauntlets made from insulated nylon fabric.
Other meanings.
The word "gauntlet" is sometimes used in the following figure of speech: "to throw down the gauntlet." If a person says that "Fred threw down the gauntlet at the committee meeting last night", they mean that Fred issued a public challenge at the committee meeting.
Another figure of speech is the phrase "run the gauntlet." This means to "face a trial or test." For example, if a sailor commits an offense, his comrades may form a line, and each comrade will hit the sailor as he passes by the line. This is called "running the gauntlet."
