different between gauntlet vs gadling

English

Alternative forms

• gantlet

Etymology 1

From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gônt’l?t, IPA^(key): /????nt.l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gauntlet (plural gauntlets)

1. Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
2. A long glove covering the wrist.
3. (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

Derived terms

• take up the gauntlet
• throw down the gauntlet

Translations

See also

• Gauntlet (glove) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Modified, under the influence of etymology 1, from gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp (“passageway”), from Old Swedish gata (“lane”) + lopp (“course”), from löpa (“to run”)

Noun

gauntlet (plural gauntlets)

1. (archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment
2. Simultaneous attack from two or more sides
3. (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment
4. (rail transport) A temporary convergence of two parallel railroad tracks allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching.

Derived terms

• running the gauntlet (having to run between rows of attackers as a punishment)
• run the gauntlet (submit to a series of difficult tests)

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English gadling (“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), gadeling (“vagabond”), from Old English geaduling, gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz (“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad +? -ling. Related to Old English g?da (“comrade, companion”).

Noun

gadling (plural gadlings)

1. (obsolete) A companion in arms, fellow, comrade.
   • 14th century, unknown author, "The Killing of Abel", Towneley Cycle, manuscript of mid 15th century

     Gedlyngis, I am a fulle grete wat.

2. A roving vagabond; one who roams
3. A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia