gauntlet
['gɔntlɪt]
n. 套, 套, 夹击

[医] 套形绷带

1. Motorcyclists with leather gauntlets are waiting for the start of the game.
   戴着护套摩托正等待赛始。
2. He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
   即接受挑战。
3. He parents had told me never to speak to their daughter again, so I knew that I was running the gauntlet when I telephoned her to arrange a meeting.
   父母许再女谈话，，道话她受惩性考验。

gauntlet
[ 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

<noun.artifact>

4. 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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Gauntlet \Gaunt"let\, n. (Mil.)
See {Gantlet}.


Gauntlet \Gaunt"let\, n. [F. gantelet, dim. of gant glove, LL.
wantus, of Teutonic origin; cf. D. want, Sw. & Dan. vante,
Icel. v["o]ttr, for vantr.]
1. A glove of such material that it defends the hand from
wounds.

Note: The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain
mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates,
scales, etc., of metal sewed to it, and, in the 14th
century, became a glove of small steel plates,
carefully articulated and covering the whole hand
except the palm and the inside of the fingers.

2. A long glove, covering the wrist.

3. (Naut.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for
drying.

{To take up the gauntlet}, to accept a challenge.

{To throw down the gauntlet}, to offer or send a challenge.
The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight
challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the
challenge; -- hence the phrases.