Gantlet:
noun
- Railroads. a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
- gauntlet2 (defs. 1, 2, 4).
verb (used with object)
- Railroads. to form or lay down as a gantlet:
to gantlet tracks.
Noted in “Kamala Harris knows things no vice president has ever known,” Monica Hesse, WaPo:
This isn’t because men can’t be compassionate and sympathetic to women’s issues. Of course they can. But in the entire history of the United States we have only had presidents and vice presidents for whom the experiences of women are known and understood secondhand, if at all. And there is a difference between being sympathetic to women’s issues and knowing that, if a condom breaks, you are the one who is going to be walking into a medical clinic through a gantlet of protesters screaming that you are a murderer.
The definitions of gauntlet also don’t work, at least according to Dictionary.com.
