gantlet

Noun

Meaning

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.

A glove. See Gauntlet.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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threw down the gauntlet Source: Internet

took up the gauntlet Source: Internet

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