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Torink
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Posted - 2007.09.30 16:38:00 -
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I belive the OP is thinking of the Barbican.
The Barbican was an exterior walled passage with multiple gates leading to the main entrance ( the Gatehouse) - the Barbican really was a death trap!
Defenders would fire arrows from loop holes in the Barbican passage walls
Only a small number of men were needed to defend this part of the castle
Holes in the ceiling, above the passage - called Murder Holes - allowed defenders to drop boiling water, heavy stones or hot sand on the enemy
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Dillon Arklight
Unit 14
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Posted - 2007.09.30 17:41:00 -
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Allure or Wall-walk, Apse, Arcading, Bailey or Ward, Bartizan, Bastion, Brattice, Concentric, Crenelation, Cross-wall, Corbel, Donjon, Enceinte, Embrasure, Escalade, Finial, Aisle, Ambulatory, Berm, Counterscarp, Enceinte, Parados.....
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ExcellciuM
Exair Industries
United Connection's
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Posted - 2007.09.30 20:38:00 -
[93]
Killzone?
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Dillon Arklight
Unit 14
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Posted - 2007.09.30 21:30:00 -
[94]
boomhullshot?
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Garonis
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.10.01 07:56:00 -
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I think he's thinking of an Abattoir
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B1GDAVE
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Posted - 2007.10.01 08:41:00 -
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I think you mean a bottleneck?
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Cutie Chaser
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.10.01 08:50:00 -
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 Originally by: The Socialworker
I may be wrong here but I think the guantlet was an early explossive that was stuck to the gates of a castle etc and then hopefully it exploded and damaged the gates. To run the guantlet meant that you had to carry the bomb (or be one of the spare boddies for covering fire/human sheild/spare carriers for when the first guy goes down) run through the enemy fire, plant the bomb, and run back through the enemy fire again, and hopefully do all this while not getting blown up by your own bomb.
I thought that the term "running the gauntlet" itself was a reference to an early type of torture/punishment myself. But for every phase there are a thousand stories of its origin, so no surprise there :P
Nevertheless, if you are running a narrow corridor between 2 walls you are running a gauntlet, weather or not the walls are literal stone or rows of people armed with rods/staves/paddles.
The sheer amount of terms for the scenario that cover the description the OP gave amazes me. Tons of suggestion and most are correct terms for it, even if they are not the one that eludes the thoughts of the OP :P
Guess that just goes to show the complexity of language, eh?
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