Gantlet
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A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender wasmade to run between two files of men facing one another, who struckhim as he passed. To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of thegantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism orcontroversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.
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