gantlet

English

Etymology

From Middle English gantlett, gantelette, variant of Middle English gauntelett. More at gauntlet.

Noun

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.

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