gantlet

gantlet has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. A glove. See Gauntlet.
• n.. 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
• n.. 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
• n.. a glove with long sleeve
• n.. a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
• n.. to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet"