Gauntlet

We had to run the gauntlet of entrenched defenders.

Will she be able to pick up the gauntlet?

Will you be able to pick up the gauntlet?

Tom threw down the gauntlet. He was ready to fight.

Tom was so angry that he was about to throw down the gauntlet.

The hands were defended by Gauntlets, these were sometimes of chain mail, but oftener of small plates of iron rivetted together, in imitation of the lobster's tail, so as to yield every motion of the hand, some gauntlets inclosed the whole hand, as in a box or case, others were divided into fingers, each finger consisting of eight or ten separate pieces, the inside gloved with buff leather, some of these reached no higher than the wrist, others to the elbow; the latter were stiled long armed gauntlets: many of them are to be seen in the Tower; for a representation of one of them, see plate 26, fig 6.

The hawk no longer darts forth from the gauntlet to soar through the air for his prey.

Solventproof rubber gauntlets under solventproof sleeves closed at the wrists should be worn.

[John] Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights from his neighbors.