gantlet
['ɡɔ:ntlit]
- n. 长手套；夹笞刑；手腕
- vt. 使轨道套叠；铺设套式轨道
英英释义
- 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
英文词源
- gantlet (n.)
- "military punishment in which offender runs between rows of men who beat him in passing," 1640s, gantlope, gantelope, from Swedish gatlopp "passageway," from Old Swedish gata "lane" (see gate (n.)) + lopp "course," related to löpa "to run" (see leap (v.)). Probably borrowed by English soldiers during Thirty Years' War.
By normal evolution the Modern English form would be *gatelope, but the current spelling (first attested 1660s, not fixed until mid-19c.) is from influence of gauntlet (n.1) "a glove," "there being some vague association with 'throwing down the gauntlet' in challenge" [Century Dictionary].