gantlet

¹

[gant-lit, gawnt-]

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. gauntlet.

verb (used with object)

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

   to gantlet tracks.

gantlet

²

[gant-lit, gawnt-]

noun

1. gauntlet.

gantlet

¹

/ ˈɡæntlɪt, ˈɡɔːnt- /

noun

1. a section of a railway where two tracks overlap

2. a variant spelling of gauntlet 2

gantlet

²

/ ˈɡɔːnt-, ˈɡæntlɪt /

noun

1. a variant of gauntlet 1

Other Word Forms

• gantleted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gantlet¹

First recorded in 1900–05; variant of gantlope

Word History and Origins

Origin of gantlet¹

C17 gantlope (modern spelling influenced by _gauntlet ¹ ), from Swedish gatlopp, literally: passageway, from gata way (related to _gate ³) + lop course

Example Sentences

Going through the private-school gantlet of the Trinity League is not easy but the Huskies fear no one.

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Tourists flock to the savannah by the hundreds of thousands, hoping to catch sight of the herds as they run a gantlet of crocodiles lying in wait in the Mara River.

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How could they, Hanna said, when you have to negotiate a growing gantlet of Israeli roadblocks just to get here?

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Through Season 1’s horrific gantlet of murderous kids’ games, his exterior is scraped away with a rusty edge until all that’s left is a flawed but good man.

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On Friday night, their already overworked bullpen had been gassed again by their extra-inning gantlet.

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