Handy Piece Of Protective Gear Crossword Clue

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	99%	8		Exact Match!
	noun • to offer or accept a challenge • a glove of armored leather; protects the hand • a glove with long sleeve • a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
	30%	10		A gear that meshes with the sun gear in an epicyclic gear train
	noun • an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train
	30%	10		Gear with a higher gear ratio than first gear
	noun • the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle

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1	*Protective medieval gear New York Times - 19 Oct 2015	New York Times / 19 Oct 2015
2	A gear that meshes with the sun gear in an epicyclic gear train
3	Dressed in a painter's protective gear New York Times Mini - 27 Mar 2021	New York Times Mini / 27 Mar 2021
4	Gear that meshes with the sun gear and ring gear
5	Ornamental flowering shrub - handy gear (anag) The Guardian Quick - 20 Jun 2000	The Guardian Quick / 20 Jun 2000
6	Protective gear New York Times - 14 Nov 1985	New York Times / 14 Nov 1985
7	Protective gear for in-line skaters New York Times - 27 Jun 2022	New York Times / 27 Jun 2022

Knight's glove
Padding site
It may be thrown down or run
It's taken up as a challenge, but it''s punishing for runners
Glove female relative left in bag
Long glove
Handy thing to take up or run
Gloomy letter, only half read, seen as a challenge
Challenge location of punishing run
Punishment to be run — heavy glove

Part of a duelist's uniform
Glove stolen by thieving Aunt Letitia
Long-sleeved glove
One's on hand potentially to issue a challenge
This is thrown down as a challenge
Some armour Britain lost in dreadful gun battle
Allowed to carry thin glove
Challenge, symbolically
Baking a gluten tart initially is a challenge

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