Lexic.us

Definition of Bayonet

1. Verb. Stab or kill someone with a bayonet. "They want to bayonet the prisoners "

2. Noun. A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.

Definition of Bayonet

1. n. A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

2. v. t. To stab with a bayonet.

Definition of Bayonet

1. Noun. (''Weapon'') A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which required to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired. ¹

2. Noun. (''Machinery'') A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To stab with a bayonet. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bayonet

1. to stab with a dagger-like weapon [v -NETED, -NETING, -NETS or -NETTED, -NETTING, -NETS]

Medical Definition of Bayonet

1. An instrument having a blade or nib that is offset and parallel to the shaft. Origin: Fr. Bayonette, fr. Bayonne, France, where first made (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayonet

bayerites bayes theorem bayfront bayfronts baying bayings bayldonite bayle bayles bayleyite

baylike baylisascariasis baylissite bayman baymen bayonet (current term) bayonet forceps bayonet hair bayoneted bayoneting

bayonetings bayonets bayonetted bayonetting bayonettings bayou bayous bayplan bayplans bays

Literary usage of Bayonet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"THE BENEVOLENT bayonet bends up double on the slightest touch. THE~BENEVOLENT bayonet can be instantly flattened out straight on the knee, and returned ..."

2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"The total length of arm, including sabre-bayonet, 73.0 inches, while its weight, including the bayonet, is about 11.6 pounds; without the bayonet the length ..."

3. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by Silas Casey (1862)
"Draw the bayonet from the scabbard and fix it on the extremity of the barrel; seize the piece with the left hand, the arm extended, the right hand at the ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1860)
"THE bayonet. The pike, as we have seen, fell into disfavour in the sixteenth century, and in the seventeenth it was entirely superseded by the bayonet ..."

5. The United Service (1905)
"The fifth article relates to the bayonet for this arm: "After a careful inquiry, together with practical tests of various types, the special committee of ..."

6. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1891)
"The positions of port, ready, present, and charge bayonet being ... bayonet. Let go with the right hand, slip the left hand slightly up the barrel, ..."

7. Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as by Sarah Hutchins Killikelly (1900)
"THE bayonet. The bayonet is said to be a native of Bayonne. The story is told that a Basque regiment at Bayonne, running short of ammunition, inserted their ..."

8. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1840)
"I then gave him a dart of the bayonet, I thought that would have had the effect of ... I then presented the bayonet again. He parried it, closed me, ..."

Other Resources: