From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbayonetbay‧o‧net1 /ˈbeɪənət, -net/ noun [countable] PMWa long knife that is fixed to the end of a rifle (=long gun)
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bayonet• Your boyfriend Broadway joe has a bayonet.• There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet!• Then he threw his bayonet at me.• Hearing noises downstairs, he got out of bed, picked up his bayonet and went to investigate.• They raised and lowered their muskets, fixed 18-inch-long bayonets to their weapons and demonstrated various marching maneuvers.• Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.• Gregg immortalized himself by replying that his ammunition was exhausted but that he thought he could hold with the bayonet.bayonetbayonet2 verb [transitive] PMWto push the point of a bayonet into someone→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
bayonet• They bayoneted 25 pregnant women in the abdomen and beheaded 52 children.• Sons would be bayoneted and hung from poles, the women shot.• The troopers then fanned out to disarm the blacks; two blacks were shot and two bayoneted in the process.• I expected to be shot or bayoneted soon.• He was bayoneted to death by a soldier in front of two priests who had tried to protect him.Origin bayonet1 (1600-1700) French baïonnette, from Bayonne city in southwest France where it was first made 