Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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gantlet

[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)