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Gantlet   Listen
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Gantlet  n.  A glove. See Gauntlet.






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"Gantlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... He ran the gantlet at Messrs. Tag-rag and Co.'s all Tuesday as he had done on the day preceding. One should have supposed that when his companions beheld him persecuted by their common tyrant, whom they all equally hated, they would have made common cause with ...
— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

... there was no bar, the great room whose door opened directly upon the porch had been commandeered as a wassailing hall. Here the entering guest must run the gantlet of the rollicking horde before he could attain the more peaceful ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

... a quarter of a mile in diameter. Jacques nodded to him good-temperedly, for all on board the privateer were in high spirits. Their voyage had begun propitiously; the darkness of the preceding night had enabled them to ran the gantlet of the British cruisers in the narrow part of the channel, they were now well down the coast of France, and the fog reduced their chances of being seen by an enemy to ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty



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



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