GANTLET
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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&ö;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.
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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.
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Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
Palfrey.
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&hand_; Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.
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Gant"let, n. A glove. See Gauntlet.
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