Bayonet
['beɪənɪt] or ['beənət]
Definition
(noun.) a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon.
(verb.) stab or kill someone with a bayonet.
Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
(v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
Inputed by Artie
Definition
n. a stabbing instrument of steel fixed to the muzzle of a musket or rifle: military force: (pl.) soldiers armed with bayonets.—v.t. to stab with a bayonet.
Editor: Rosanne
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their power, unless you get possession of the bayonet.
Edited by Jacqueline
Examples
- His rifle, lying on the road, the bayonet fixed, pointed straight toward Anselmo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the sentry box that faced toward them up the road, the sentry was sitting holding his rifle, the bayonet fixed, between his knees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His rifle with the bayonet fixed was leaning against the wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The rifle lay, bayonet forward on the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The day is ours, he cried, the Turks fly from the bayonet. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Many a casque, and bayonet, and sword, fallen from unnerved arms, reflected the departing ray; they lay scattered far and near. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hand-to-hand again, said Dick, as the Melnosians began to use their bayonets, but they won't get over the barricade this time. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They had, therefore, to meet the shock standing or kneeling behind a bristling wall of pikes or bayonets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Talleyrand said that a government could do everything with bayonets except sit on them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Inputed by Emilia