1) Challenge 2) Gauntlet 3) Protects the hand 4) Section of railroad track 5) Series of troubles
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1) Gauntlet
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• (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. • (n.) A glove. See Gauntlet.
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Gant'let noun [
Gantlet is corrupted from
gantlope ;
gantlope is for
gatelope , Swedish
gatlopp , orig., a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run. See
Gate a way, and
Leap .] A military punishment formerly in...
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A gantlet is a railway track construction for passing two lines through a narrow space with only enough room for one. The construction is such that the two lines converge so that their inner-rails cross, running parallel and diverge again allowing a train to remain on its own tracks.
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n] - the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place
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noun a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
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noun the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
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