(See girt-line.) Also, a rope round the ship to the lower yard-arms, for drying scrubbed hammocks. Of old the term denoted the armed knight's iron glove. (See gant-lope, for running the gauntlet.)
·noun A long glove, covering the wrist. II. Gauntlet ·noun ·see <<Gantlet>>. III. Gauntlet ·noun A...
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