gauntlet
noun C2- A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
- Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
- A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss.
- Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
Plural gauntlets
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Lawrence, with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs.
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