gantlet

gantlet读音音标

英[\\\'gɔ:ntlɪt]

美[\\\'gɔntlɪt]

基本意思释义

n.长手套，夹笞刑

英英释义

Noun

1. to offer or accept a challenge;

\"threw down the gauntlet\"

\"took up the gauntlet\"

2. a glove of armored leather; protects the hand

3. a glove with long sleeve

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