Definitions for gantlet

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gantlet gant·let

Spelling: [gant-lit, gawnt-]

IPA: /ˈgænt lɪt, ˈgɔnt-/

Gantlet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in gantlet (aeglntt).

Definitions for gantlet

noun

1. 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.
2. gauntlet2 (defs 1, 2, 4).
3. gauntlet1 .

verb (used with object)

1. Railroads. to form or lay down as a gantlet:

Origin of gantlet

First recorded in 1900-05; variant of gantlope

Examples for gantlet

We are taken ashore and forced to run the gantlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.

He knew that they would not kill him in the gantlet; they would save him for the fire.

A few of us followed in their wake, running a gantlet of cops trying to stop us for no reason they could reasonably explain.

But the narrow path along which Andrew rode was a gantlet to him.

"We'd best hurry, Peggy," he said, urging her toward the gantlet.

His return to the hills was equivalent to running the gantlet.

I have heard the story of your running the gantlet and surprising the road-agents.

"I was able to make it the gantlet first," Timmendiquas was saying in his ear.

Running that gantlet is a thankless task for a centrist candidate in a time of rabid RINO hunting.

She did not wish to run the gantlet of Mrs. Beaseley's volubility on this occasion.