Dictionary Entry
gantlet
gantlet is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A glove. See Gauntlet.
- 3noun
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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- 4noun
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
- 5noun
a glove with long sleeve
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- 6noun
a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
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- 7noun
to offer or accept a challenge
"threw down the gauntlet"
"took up the gauntlet"
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