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gantlet
N ทางรถไฟ ที่มา บรรจบ กัน 2 ขบวน การ ทำโทษ ใน สมัยก่อน
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GANTLET, GAUNTLET
n.A large iron glove with fingers covered with small plates, formerly worn by cavaliers, armed at all points. To throw the gantlet, is to challenge; and
To take up the gantlet, is to accept the challenge.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GANTLET
GANTLET Gant "let, n. [Gantlet is corrupted fr. gantlope; gantlope is for gatelope, Sw. gatlopp, orig. , a running down a lane; gata street, lane + lopp course, career, akin to löpa to run. See Gate a way, and Leap. ]
Defn: 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.
GANTLET
GANTLET Gant "let, n.
Defn: A glove. See Gauntlet.
New American Oxford Dictionary
gantlet
gant let |ˈgantlit, ˈgônt -| ▶noun variant spelling of gauntlet 2.
Oxford Dictionary
gantlet
gantlet |ˈgantlɪt | ▶noun US spelling of gauntlet 2.
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