gauntlet
gawnt luht
- n to offer or accept a challenge
threw down the gauntlet
took up the gauntlet - n a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- n a glove with long sleeve
- 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
- That prompted Barack Obama to throw down a gauntlet of his own.
- Even the pro-life movement hasn't tried to outlaw fertility treatment: anyone who has ever watched someone they care about run the fertility gauntlet thinks twice before getting in .
- Attorney General Bobby Kennedy last week ran the civil rights gauntlet, got flogged from both sides, and emerged scarredbut still in better shape than anyone might have .