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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   gantlet
       n 1: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet";
            "took up the gauntlet" [syn: gauntlet, gantlet]
       2: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand [syn:
          gauntlet, gantlet, metal glove]
       3: a glove with long sleeve [syn: gauntlet, gantlet]
       4: 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
       5: 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 [syn: gauntlet,
          gantlet]