gantlet

From Middle English gantlett, gantelette, variant of Middle English gauntelett. More at gauntlet.

gantlet (plural gantlets)

1. (American spelling, uncommon) Alternative spelling of gauntlet.
   • 1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter XII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 481:

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