gant·let /ˈgɔntlət, ˈgɑnt-/
 長手套;笞刑


 Gant·let n.  A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.
 To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of the gantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism or controversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.
    Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.   --Palfrey.
 Note: ☞ Written also, but less properly, gauntlet.


 Gant·let, n. A glove. See Gauntlet.

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 gantlet
      n 1: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet";
           "took up the gauntlet" [syn: gauntlet]
      2: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand [syn: gauntlet,
          metal glove]
      3: a glove with long sleeve [syn: gauntlet]
      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 [syn: gauntlet]