gantlet
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English gantlett, gantelette, variant of Middle English gauntelett. More at gauntlet.
Noun edit
gantlet (plural gantlets)
- Alternative spelling of gauntlet
- 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 481:
- [John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors.