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Gantlet

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim

polysemous

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
gauntlet
plural
Gantlets
possessive
Gantlet's
pluralpossessive
Gantlets'