gantlet
['gɔ:ntlit]
n. 套, 夹笞刑





gantlet
[ noun ]

1. to offer or accept a challenge

<noun.communication>
threw down the gauntlet
took up the gauntlet

2. a glove of armored leather; protects the hand

<noun.artifact>

3. a glove with long sleeve

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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

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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

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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.

{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.

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.
--Palfrey.

Note: Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.


Gantlet \Gant"let\, n.
A glove. See {Gauntlet}.