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 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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In October 2000 Mrs Albright found herself in a stadium in Pyongyang next to Kim Jong-Il, watching 100,000 North Korean children and adults dance and thrust bayonets in perfect unison.
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Though the Guardsman looked no-nonsense clutching his rifle fixed with a bayonet, his expression appeared more fearful than menacing, Hill said.
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Finally the murderers waded into the gruesome scene of wounded, bleeding children (one of the killers compared it to a slippery ice rink awash with blood and brains) and stabbed them manically with bayonets or shot them in the head.
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National Guardsmen fanned out across the street with rifles armed with bayonets as Johnson’s mother corralled the rest of her 10 siblings.
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A year later, in South Carolina, a 16-year-old struggling with depression stabbed a resource officer seven times with a bayonet before being shot to death.
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In the manner of story theater, its components assume myriad meanings, with the ropes doubling as bayonets, and the boxes metamorphosing into crates of medical supplies, beds, and, finally, a coffin.
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Origin and Etymology of bayonet
French baïonnette, from Bayonne, France
Definition of bayonet
bayoneted
also bayonetted;
bayoneting
also bayonetting
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: to stab with a bayonet
2
: to compel or drive by or as if by the bayonet
: to use a bayonet
Recent Examples of bayonet from the Web
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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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Shakespearean intrigue has them playing St. Louis and former bench boss Mike Yeo, whom Minnesota bayoneted off the plank last season only to watch him rescue the Blues in February and march them into the postseason on a 15-2-2 run.
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Those women who tried to resist were bayoneted until the blood was running.
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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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