A glove of armored leather; protects the hand.
1 They'd be like gantlet right out, right out the bat, it's true.
2 Kedzie floated into the dining-room and passed the gantlet of the servants.
3 They have run the gantlet of the years as well as I.
4 An' they don't aim t' run the gantlet till they have t'.
5 Norine was pleased; she smiled and blushed and ran the gantlet bravely enough.
6 I have to run the gantlet of so many curious eyes.
7 She was perfectly well aware of the gantlet she must run.
8 But the narrow path along which Andrew rode was a gantlet to him.
9 They'd be like gantlet right out the bat, it's true.
10 We've got to run the gantlet , and the sooner it is done the better.
11 We found ourselves running a gantlet wherein discovery seemed certain.
12 Waring followed, his mind anything but easy; it seemed to him like running the gantlet .
13 It was well for us the night was dark, else we had run that gantlet .
14 The wind had become violent and irregular; the balloon was running the gantlet through the air.
15 Monty-he's hell on runnin' the gantlet of fire.
16 Her pew was third from the chancel; she was but half-way through the gantlet of curious eyes.
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