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单词 gantlet
释义 gantlet
gantlet1
 /gant"lit, gawnt"-/,  n.  
  1.  Railroads.   a track construction used in narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its own track at all times.
  2. gauntlet2 (defs. 1, 2, 4).
  v.t.  
  3.  Railroads.   to form or lay down as a gantlet: to gantlet tracks.
 Also, gauntlet (for defs. 1, 3).
 [1900-05; var. of GANTLOPE]
gantlet2
 —gantleted,  adj.  
 /gant"lit, gawnt"-/,  n.  
 gauntlet1.
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