1. A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by knights and men-at-arms; a glove coming up over the wrist; a bandage similar. To throw down the gantlet, to challenge to combat. To take up the gantlet, to accept the challenge.

2. A military or naval punishment, in which the offender is compelled to run between two lines of person's armed with rods, who inflict blows as he passes. To run the gantlet, to undergo this punishment; to come under every lash.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• gautlet,
• andlet,
• gaunlet,
• gentlem,
• guantlet,
• guanlet,
• gentlt,
• ganted,
• gantalet,
• gountlet,
• gauntlett,
• gontlet,
• gauntlent,
• bandelet,
• banclet,
• gantle,
• gantley,
• gantleet,
• mantleet,
• mantelett

• gauntlets,
• gentlest,
• gauntlet,
• gentle,
• gauntleted.

The adjective form of the word "gantlet" is "gantleted".

The plural of the "gantlet" can be the "gantlets".

The singular of the "gantlet" can be the "gantlet".