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Gantlet  n.  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." Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.






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"Gantlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... written M. De la Chambre, Of Light; discoursed with this new Author after the same rate, as he had done before with Des-Cartes himself, and seemed to invite some-body of his friends, to re-assume the former contest. Whereupon M. Clerselier and M. Rohault took up the Gantlet, to assert the Doctrine of the deceased Philosopher, exchanging several Letters with M. Fermat, all inserted in this Tome, and serving fully to instruct the Reader of this Difference, and withal to elucidate many difficult points ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various

... is as good a time as another. We've got to run the gantlet, and the sooner it is ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

... leading to his train was closed behind him, Harley felt a mighty sense of relief. It seemed to him that he had run a gantlet not much inferior to that through which the Indians put the captive backwoodsmen, and the dark-red walls of the car rose before him a fortress ...
— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... bustle and the chatter of many voices arose; but it soon died away before stern commands and equally stern preparations, because they were preparing to run as terrible a gantlet as human beings ever face, these dauntless pioneers of the wilderness. The children were quickly loaded in the wagons, and all the weaker of the women; but with the men on the flanks marched at least two-score grim Amazons, rifle ...
— The Forest Runners - A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... roused. That town he must and would have. He might have marched past it and left it in the rear, though not without great loss and danger, for the pass was narrow and commanded by the guns of Guntz, and he would have had to run the gantlet of a hailstorm of iron balls. But he had no thought of passing it; his honor was involved. Guntz must be his and its insolent garrison punished, or how could Solyman the Magnificent ever hold up his head among monarchs ...
— Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality, German • Charles Morris



Words linked to "Gantlet" :   coat of mail, suit of armour, railroad track, body armor, suit of armor, corporal punishment, glove, gauntlet, railway, challenge, metal glove, cataphract, body armour



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