gantlope

Definitions

Examples

• The method of punishing by running the gantlope was very exactly defined in English martial law.

• Similar in nature to running the gantlope, and equally cowardly and cruel, was “passing the pikes.”

• Gantlope was the earlier and more correct form of the word now commonly called gantlet.

• Running the gantlope was a military punishment in universal use in the seventeenth century in England and on the continent.