marched up to cannons mouth (verb) run the gauntlet: go through an ordeal
Sinonime: belted, bordered, boundaried, circumscribed, compassed,
contiguous, defined, definite, delimited, determinate, edged, encircled,
enclosed, encompassed, enveloped, fenced,
finite, flanked, fringed, girdled, hedged, hog-tied, limitary, restricted, rimmed, ringed,
surrounded, walled
Antonime: free,
loose, unbounded, unconfined, unlimited