Definition of bayonet
: a steel blade attached at the muzzle end of a shoulder arm (such as a rifle) and used in hand-to-hand combat
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The Drum and Bugle Corps leads off, the battalion marches on, the bugle calls, the bayonets are fixed.
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With Ridley in charge, the bayonet is sheathed, the olive branch extended.
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Those who stopped walking or complained were stabbed with bayonets, shot or beheaded.
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In brutal, point-blank fighting with bayonets, lobbed grenades and bare fists, U.S. forces beat back the raid short of the artillery guns on Engineer Hill.
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The Brainsaw's flagship feature is its spinning foam blade, mounted at the blaster's front like a bonkers bayonet, but there's long-range potential too, in the form of eight barrels which pack in four darts on either side of the blade.
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Yet the fact that Qaddafi was later bombed from power by a NATO intervention, dragged from his hiding place by insurgents, sodomised with a bayonet and shot dead, made Mr Bolton’s choice of precedent complicated.
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The bronze statue depicts a Polish soldier bound, gagged and impaled by a bayonet.
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Instead of avoiding those bayonet-laden hills, Giannini kept sliding down them and continued searching for new frontiers in which to explore our nation’s past.
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Origin and Etymology of bayonet
French baïonnette, from Bayonne, France
Definition of bayonet
bayoneted
also bayonetted;
bayoneting
also bayonetting
1
: to stab with a bayonet
2
: to compel or drive by or as if by the bayonet
: to use a bayonet
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And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
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An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted or blasted with grenades.
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An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted, or blasted with grenades.
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One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade.
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One elderly man was bayoneted to death; another man was thrown alive into a well and killed with a hand grenade.
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There are many battles in which surrendering soldiers are gunned down or bayoneted to death.
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One of them, Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, who used his office to bayonet Mr. Obama’s clean-energy regulations, was just chosen by Mr. Trump to become the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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McCain got bayoneted in the groin; a soldier broke his shoulder apart with a rifle butt.
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First Known Use of bayonet
1778
BAYONET Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of bayonet for English Language Learners
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: a long knife that is attached to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon in battle
BAYONET Defined for Kids
Definition of bayonet for Students
: a weapon like a dagger made to fit on the end of a rifle
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