<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>Gauntlet 2 (defs 1, 2, 4).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>Railroads: To form or lay down as a gantlet; to gantlet tracks.</li></ul>