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单词 to run the gantlope
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to run the gantlope
A military (occasionally also naval) punishment in which the culprit had to run stripped to the waist between two rows of men who struck at him with a stick or a knotted cord. rare except in †to pass the gantlope, to run the gantlope.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)]
to run the gantlope1646
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > running the gauntlet
loupegarth1637
gantlope1646
wattle-race1839
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > beat or flog [verb (intransitive)] > be beaten > run the gauntlet
to pass the gantlope1646
to run the gauntlet1676
1646 Shaftesbury Diary 11 Apr. in W. D. Christie Life (1871) I. 34 Three were condemned to die, two to run the gantelope.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gantlope (Ghent Lope), a punishment of Souldiers, first invented at Ghent..and therefore so called.
1706 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 90 The regency of Saxony..caused..400 to run the gantlope, for not doing their duty.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. xi. 86 Others [said] that he deserved to run the Gauntlope . View more context for this quotation
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 141 In the Piedmontese service, every offence of this nature is punished with the gantlope.
1807 J. Milner Martyrs i. ii. 51 They were ordered to run the gantelope between the hunters..and were severely lashed.
figurative and in extended use.1649 T. Forde Lusus Fortunæ sig. *2 Being now exposed to run the Gantelope of the Worlds censure.1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 23 This Petition ran the Gantlop throughout all the Prelaticall party.1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 55 When a new Invention is first propounded..the poor Inventor runs the Gantloop of all petulent wits.a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1742) III. 140 We cannot but wonder..that in running the gantlope of a long life..we have escaped so free.1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. App. 102 They threatned..that whosoever gave me a Drink of Water should get the Goadloup.1747 Gentleman's Mag. May 233/1 I ran the gantlop thro' a number of soldiers to an obliging landlord.1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxv To run the female gauntlope.1785 J. Drinkwater Hist. Siege Gibraltar (1786) 329 They were in this manner obliged to pass the gantlope of our fire.1804 J. Larwood No Gun Boats 8 We must re-run the gantelope of our Bounties and Recruitings.1836 Edinb. Rev. 64 71 No doubt he ran the usual gantelope of jokes.
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