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run the gantlope en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of run the gauntlet.
When a soldier comes drunk upon the parade, gets drunk when on duty, goes away from his guard without leave, sleeps upon his post, or quits it before he is regularly relieved, he shall be confined, and the day following run the gantlope, without trial, ten times through 200 men.
1757, Regulations for the Prussian Cavalry, page 350:
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