单词 | gantlet |
释义 | gantlet (once / 24675 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY gantlet: gantlets USAGE EXAMPLESUpon clearing the gantlet, he cried, “Who invented that?” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) When you schedule-surfed before the year began, you saw a gantlet, starting with the London game against Cincinnati on Oct. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) Until 2013, fish ran a gantlet of three large dams in the first 10 miles of the Penobscot above head of tide, near Bangor. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) 1 1n a glove of armored leather; protects the hand Syn|Hyper gauntlet, metal glove glove handwear: covers the hand and wrist 2n a glove with long sleeve Syn|Hyper gauntlet glove handwear: covers the hand and wrist 3n to offer or accept a challenge 2Syn|Hyper gauntlet challenge a call to engage in a contest or fight n 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 3Syn|Hyper gauntlet corporal punishment the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime n 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 Hyper railroad, railroad track, railway a line of track providing a runway for wheels |
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