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gantlet
1[ gant-lit, gawnt- ]
noun
- Railroads. a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
verb (used with object)
- Railroads. to form or lay down as a gantlet:
to gantlet tracks.
gantlet
2[ gant-lit, gawnt- ]
noun
gantlet
1/ ˈɡæntlɪt; ˈɡɔːnt- /
gantlet
2/ ˈɡɔːnt-; ˈɡæntlɪt /
noun
- See gauntleta variant of gauntlet 1
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- gantlet·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of gantlet1
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Example Sentences
A few of us followed in their wake, running a gantlet of cops trying to stop us for no reason they could reasonably explain.
We are taken ashore and forced to run the gantlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
Running that gantlet is a thankless task for a centrist candidate in a time of rabid RINO hunting.
Of course he was seized upon at once by a lot of feminine admirers, and the passage along the corridor was a perpetual gantlet.
It was evident 126 enough to him that he had to run the gantlet of the party on board of the Vampire in descending the river.
Once, when a prisoner of the Indians, and forced to run the gantlet.
May our American civilization never have to run the gantlet of such a terrible trial!
In sheer perplexity he began drawing off his heavy gantlet gloves as though to prepare for action.
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