BAYONET (bayonetted, bayonetting)

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Irregular inflected forms: bayonetted    , bayonetting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bayonet mean? 

• BAYONET (noun)
  The noun BAYONET has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BAYONET used as a noun is very rare.

• BAYONET (verb)
  The verb BAYONET has 1 sense:

1. stab or kill someone with a bayonet

  Familiarity information: BAYONET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAYONET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bayonet" is a kind of...):

knife (a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point)

Derivation:

bayonet (stab or kill someone with a bayonet)

• BAYONET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they bayonet    ... he / she / it bayonets   
Past simple: bayoneted    / bayonetted   
Past participle: bayoneted    / bayonetted   
-ing form: bayoneting    / bayonetting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stab or kill someone with a bayonet

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "bayonet" is one way to...):

knife; stab (use a knife on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to bayonet the prisoners

Derivation:

bayonet (a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon)

 Context examples 

One could not walk the Kent coast without seeing the beacons heaped up to tell the country of the enemy’s landing, and if the sun were shining on the uplands near Boulogne, one might catch the flash of its gleam upon the bayonets of manoeuvring veterans.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There were two more soldiers at the door of the state-room, and their muskets seemed not to be loaded, for they never fired upon us, and they were shot while trying to fix their bayonets.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)