bayonet
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪəˌnɛt/
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bayoneta
- The museum displayed an ancient bayonet used in historical battles.
- rifle and bayonet
- fixed bayonets
- musket and bayonet
Why couldn't I grab a machete or a bayonet and stop the soldiers from doing what they were doing?
- Why couldn't I grab a machete or a bayonet and stop the soldiers from doing what they were doing?
- Once you've thrust, thrust the first bayonet in in, in the cause of that, you can't take a step back.
- But at the end of the day it was the soldiers job to fight and kill with the rifle and bayonet and passivity in combat meant death.
- Withdrawn bayonets standing on every corner as I returned home to practice law.
- They were wore the the long gun with the musket or not musket, but it had a long, not sword, but knife, bayonet at the tip.
- My uncle said he didn't want people in Africa and Latin America and Asia to think of when they think of America, to picture a man with a gun and a bayonet.
Examples
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The Northern men, their bayonets gleaming even in the uncertain light, upped their pace to double-quick.
Fiction book (1992) -
The gleam of fixed bayonets flashed in the sunlight as the squad rushed silently forward.
Fiction book (1994) -
My, my mother gave me a German bayonet that they had.
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May I have the bayonet, please?
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I offered the rifle to him nearly at present arms, the bayonet pointed at the sky.
Fiction book (1991) -
All soldiers receive core training in bayonet fighting, which drills modes of attack and defense.
Academic text (2007) -
Their rifles with their bayonets, trained at the gate, were glittering in the morning sun.
Fiction book (1991) -
Reserve grenadiers charge forward with bayonets fixed, sweeping the Austrians Off the hill.
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A deep column of bluecoats, their bayonets fixed, stormed up the Brock Road at the double-quick.
Fiction book (1992) -
During training, soldiers practiced how to attach the bayonet to their rifles quickly.
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Etymology
The word bayonet probably comes from the French town Bayonne, where people once made a small knife. The name came to mean the blade that fits on the end of a rifle, so a bayonet is a knife you attach to a gun.