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gantleted

gantleted is the alternative form of gauntleted.

Meaning of gauntleted

Adjective

gauntleted (not comparable)

  1. Adorned with one or more gauntlets
    • It was brought to General Lee as he sat on his horse near the Chancellorsville House, and, unable to open it with his gauntleted hands, he passed it to me with directions to read it to him.1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
  2. Having a gauntlet (overlapping parallel rail tracks).
    • The opportunity was also taken to remove one of the few examples of gauntleted tracks in this country, interlacing the down fast and slow lines over the bridge.1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Selby swing bridge”, in Trains Illustrated, page 647
    Synonyms:
    interlaced

Questions about gantleted

What is gantleted the alternative form of?
Gantleted is the alternative form of gauntleted.

Words near gantleted in the dictionary

  1. ganthiyas
  2. ganthoda
  3. ganthostome
  4. gantisate
  5. gantlet
  6. gantleted
  7. gantlets
  8. gantline
  9. gantlines
  10. gantlope
  11. gantlopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gantleted (page history and authors); gauntleted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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