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Gauntlet
Gauntlet
, occasionally spelled
gantlet
, can mean:
Gauntlet
is a
video game
originally produced in
1985
by
Atari Games
.
Gauntlet
is a protective
glove
used as a form of
armour
.
Running the Gauntlet
refers to a
punishment
or
torture
in which people armed with sticks or other
weapons
arrange themselves in two lines facing each other and beat the subject, who is forced to run between them.
The Gauntlet
was a store founded by
Jim Ward
that pioneered the field of
body piercing
.
In the context of
railroad
operations, the term
gantlet track
refers to a section of two tracks that overlap to allow them to pass a narrow bridge or tunnel in little more than the space of one track. (This could be considered a form of
Time-division multiplexing
.) See
gantlet track
section under
Railroad switch
.
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Word choice: Gantlet versus Gauntlet
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