Gauntlet (Fr. gantelet). A large glove of mail; a covering for the hand with plates of metal on the back, worn as a part of the defensive armor in ancient times. A long glove, covering the wrist; as, a riding-gauntlet. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge; to defy.
Gauntlet. A kind of military punishment; the gantelet used in the expression to run the gauntlet. See [Gantlope].
Gauntleted. Wearing a gauntlet.
Gawelgur. A strong fortress of Hindostan, in the dominions of the Nizam or ruler of Hyderabad. It was taken by Gen. Wellesley, December 14, 1803, after a siege of two days, but was restored to the rajah on the conclusion of peace.
Gaza. A city of the Philistines, of which Samson carried off the gates, about 1120 B.C. It was taken by Alexander after a long siege, 332, and near it Ptolemy defeated Demetrius Poliorcetes, 312 B.C. It was taken by Saladin, 1170; by Bonaparte, March, 1799; and by the Egyptians in 1831.
Gaze. In heraldry, when a beast of the chase is represented as affronté, or full-faced, it is said to be at gaze.
Gazette. To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially; as an appointment either civil or military. All commissions in the British army, militia, fencible, and volunteer corps must be gazetted.
Gazons. In fortification, pieces of fresh earth, or sods, covered with grass, and cut in the form of a wedge, about a foot long and half a foot thick, to line the outsides of a work made of earth, as ramparts, parapets, banquettes, etc. The first bed of gazons is fixed with pegs of wood, and the second bed is so laid as to bind the former, by being placed over its joints, and so continued till the works are finished. Between those it is usual to sow all sorts of binding weeds or herbs, in order to strengthen the rampart.
Gear. Warlike accoutrements; military harness; equipage.
Geat. The hole through which the metal is conveyed to the mold in casting ordnance.