GANTLET

gantlet (gawnt-lit). [fr. Swedish gata “lane” + lopp “course”] 1.Hist. A former military

punishment in which the offender was stripped to the waist and forced to run between two rows of

soldiers who gave him lashes as he passed. 2. A series of severe troubles or difficulties; an ordeal.

— Also spelled gauntlet; (archaically) gantlope.[Blacks Law 8th]