gantlet

IPA: gˈɔntɫʌt

Alternative spelling of gauntlet [Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.]

Examples of "gantlet" in Sentences

A gantlet is a flogging ordeal, literally or figuratively.
I claim it has to be "gantlet," and he of course says, "yo mama!"
To clicking shutters, the Fly Girls strut the gantlet with chests out.
"It's almost impossible to get to the end of the gantlet without being branded a criminal."
At one stage in the hiring process, I went through a gantlet of nearly a full day of interviews with Sierra Club Board members and senior staff.
It's been a year since drunken naval aviators at the Tailhook convention assaulted 26 women in a "gantlet" at the Las Vegas Hilton, and no officer has been charged.
Just to cover the story in Baghdad journalists had first to survive the five-mile trip between Baghdad International Airport and the capital, a road known as “Route Irish,” which was a gantlet of suicide bombers and rocket attacks during the first two years of the war.