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gantlet    音標拼音: [g'ɔntlət]
n. 長手套;笞刑

長手套;笞刑

gantlet
n 1: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet";
"took up the gauntlet" [synonym: {gauntlet}, {gantlet}]
2: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand [synonym:
{gauntlet}, {gantlet}, {metal glove}]
3: a glove with long sleeve [synonym: {gauntlet}, {gantlet}]
4: the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow
place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then
diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times
5: a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run
between two lines of men facing each other and armed with
clubs or whips to beat the victim [synonym: {gauntlet},
{gantlet}]

Gantlet \Gant"let\, n.
A glove. See {Gauntlet}.
[1913 Webster]


Gantlet \Gant"let\, n. [Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope;
gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig., a running down
a lane; gata street, lane lopp course, career, akin to
l["o]pa to run. See {Gate} a way, and {Leap}.]
A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender
was made to run between two files of men facing one another,
who struck him as he passed.
[1913 Webster]

{To run the gantlet}, to suffer the punishment of the
gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe
criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.
[1913 Webster]

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
--Palfrey.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.
[1913 Webster]

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