gauntlet
/ˈɡɔːnt.lət/ noun C1- Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
- A long glove covering the wrist.
- A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
- An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
Plural gauntlets
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Lawrence, with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs.
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