gantlet

noun

1. 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.
2. gauntlet²(defs 1, 2, 4).

verb (used with object)

3. Railroads. to form or lay down as a gantlet: to gantlet tracks.

noun

1. gauntlet¹.

noun

1. a section of a railway where two tracks overlap
2. US a variant spelling of gauntlet 2

noun

1. a variant of gauntlet 1

see gauntlet (n.1).