2. Noun. A stabbing with a bayonet. ¹
3. Noun. Overlap of fracture fragments in a longbone fracture resulting in shortening of the extremity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bayonetting
1. bayonet [v] - See also: bayonet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayonetting
Literary usage of Bayonetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches by John Fraser (1890)
"camp fires; bayonetting many of the sleeping enemy. The men then prepared to
adjust their flints. During this operation a volley came from out of the ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"... nothing could surpass the spirit with which Ripley's American brigade charged
the British guns and captured them, bayonetting the gunners. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and bayonetting some seamen, who pertinaciously clung to their guns, took
possession of two, out of the five pieces of cannon, which had so severely ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Up close, almost within bayonetting distance of the enemy, who lined their
breastworks with bravo and reckless traitors, stood Mitchell's boys, ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"When the word was given they made for the quarries as hard as they could run,
jumped down, and began bayonetting every man they met. ..."
6. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"as they were bayonetting the weeping and kneeling inhabitants, mothers with their
infants, aged and venerable men, ladies of distinction, children, ..."
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