gantlet
['ɡɔ:ntlit]
- n. 长手套；夹笞刑；手腕
- vt. 使轨道套叠；铺设套式轨道
英英释意
- 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