Synonyms for Gantlet

Definition of gantlet

to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" a glove of armored leather; protects the hand a glove with long sleeve 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 a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines