Definitions for bayonet

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bayonet bay·o·net

Spelling: [bey-uh-nit, -net, bey-uh-net]

IPA: /ˈbeɪ ə nɪt, -ˌnɛt, ˌbeɪ əˈnɛt/

Bayonet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in bayonet (abenoty).

Definitions for bayonet

noun

1. a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
2. a pin projecting from the side of an object, as the base of a flashbulb or camera lens, for securing the object in a bayonet socket.

verb (used with object)

1. to kill or wound with a bayonet.

Origin of bayonet

1605-15; French baïonnette, after Bayonne in France (where the weapon was first made or used); see -ette

Examples for bayonet

One of my men whom I knew for a womanish fellow, asked if he should put his bayonet through him.

She thought that she had to avenge her husband, and had fixed the bayonet to her rifle.

This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.

Without wasting time in firing, they advanced with the bayonet.

A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet.

One dragoon advanced and was struck off his horse by the bayonet.

The Canadians taught me bayonet fighting, and I led a bayonet charge in the Korean war.

I killed a French sergeant myself with my bayonet in this action.

The fellow was a broad-chested, short-necked German, armed with rifle and bayonet.

At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.