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单词 gantlet
释义
gantlet
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WORD FAMILY
gantlet: gantlets
USAGE EXAMPLES
Upon 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)
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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
Syn|Hyper
gauntlet
challenge
a call to engage in a contest or fight
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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
Syn|Hyper
gauntlet
corporal punishment
the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
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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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