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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. [Gantlet is corrupted fr gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope Sw gatlopp orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to l["o]pa to run. See {Gate} a way and {Leap}.] A military punishment formerly in use wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed. {To run the gantlet}, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands. Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. --Palfrey. Note: Written also but less properly, gauntlet. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. A glove. See {Gauntlet}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gantlet n : the convergence of two parallel tracks in a narrow place the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
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