GAUNTLET
- A stout glove with a long loose wrist
- An armored glove, as worn by a medieval knight
- The part of a glove covering the wrist
- to gantlet (to overlap railroad tracks) [v GAUNTLETED, GAUNTLETING, GAUNTLETS]
- was first used in English to refer to the reinforced glove worn with a suit of armor in the Middle Ages.
- to overlap railway tracks, also GANTLET [v -ED, -ING, -S]