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Armoured leather glove
Answer for the clue "Armoured leather glove ", 8 letters:
gauntlet
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gauntlet \Gaunt"let\, n. [F. gantelet, dim. of gant glove, LL. wantus, of Teutonic origin; cf. D. want, Sw. & Dan. vante, Icel. v["o]ttr, for vantr.] A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds. Note: The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gauntlet is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . He is a member of the Dark Riders , employed by Apocalypse , and is one of the Inhumans . He is fitted with a cybernetic gauntlet, high-powered weapons, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"glove," early 15c., gantelet , from Old French gantelet (13c.) "gauntlet worn by a knight in armor," also a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge, as in tendre son gantelet "throw down the gauntlet" (a sense found in English ...
Usage examples of gauntlet.
Young Conservative and Young Socialist and Libertarian literature, a group of Anachronists clustered on a lawn around two masked and gauntleted men with their wooden battle-swords, striking at one another while their referee or marshall or whatever they called him circled slowly around the fighters.
He felt the cool ceramite gauntlets encasing his fingers, and the hilt of the bolt pistol in his hand.
As for himself, though he had been fitted out in lobster-tail helmet, leather buff-coat and steel cuirass, vambraces, cuishes and gauntlets, and had a broadswordsomewhat altereddepending from a wide leather baldric, the clothing beneath was anachronistichis old GI coveralls and a handsome pair of hand-tooled Western boots.
Deciding not to press her point, the electrician reached into the rubberized gauntlet that was set into the console.
The electrician used the controls inside the gauntlet to insert a specially designed probe into the cable.
He must choose between certain death and the torture of the gauntlet, as frontiersmen named this savage ordeal.
Mars from the stupefied viewpoints of the airline hostesses and pilots constrained to pass the gauntlet of mutant ninja globuloids and punk tribbles in furs on the way to their company-booked overnighters.
I moved through the front room, I was forced to run the gauntlet of chain smokers standing four deep at the bar, shifty-eyed guys trying to look a lot hipper than they actually were.
The colonel removed his own gauntlet and they shook, the thumb-clasping grip of brotherhood learned in the honour schools of Jant Normanidus.
She leant forward with her elbow on the saddle and her chin in the small gauntletted hand, looked up the valley absently and then back at him, with a frank speculation in her eyes which was too frank and calm to be flattering, and was, indeed, somewhat embarrassing.
He lowered the goggles, pulled on the gauntlets, and flicked the power switches.
His silver gauntlets curled around the stone of the battlement as he leaned forward, nodding happily at the men below.
I ran through a gauntlet of tests--magnetic resonance imaging, more X rays, many electroencephalographs, at least a dozen more visits to the cubicles where my eyes were examined through ophthalmoscopes, and twice that number of needles puncturing my arms to draw off blood for laboratory examination.
If he could get by Quickie, he might run the gauntlet of the living room.
Using his gauntlet comm, the Razer conferred with guards in the house.