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Gant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

gant Vacant; hollow; empty, as an animal after long fasting; hence, lean; meager; thin; slender.

Gantlet [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. GANT'LET

2. GANT'LOPE, noun A military punishment inflicted on criminals for some heinous offense. It is executed in this manner; soldiers are arranged in two rows, face to face, each armed with a switch or instrument of punishment; between these rows, the offender, stripped to his waist, is compelled to pass a certain number of times, and each man gives him a stroke. A similar punishment is used on board of ships. Hence this word is chiefly used in the phrase, to run the gantlet or gantlope.

Gantlet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.

2. A glove. See Gauntlet.

Gantline [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.

Gantlope [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Gantlet.

Gantry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Gauntree.