Gauntlet

1. n. A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
2. n. See Gantlet.
3. n. A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
4. n. A long glove, covering the wrist.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.