Definition of Gauntlet

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Definition of Gauntlet
	Gauntlet See Gantlet. A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds. A long glove, covering the wrist. A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. Related Definitions: Are, Clothes, Covering, Drying, For, From, Gantlet, Glove, Hand, Hung, It, Long, Material, Of, On, Or, Rope, See, Such, That, The, Which, Wrist

Gauntlet Quotations

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.
Patty Hearst

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
Owen Hart

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
George C. Wallace

Gauntlet Translations

gauntlet in Spanish is guantelete
gauntlet in Swedish is ridhandske, gatlopp

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