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.
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), bay·o·net·ed or bay·o·net·ted, bay·o·net·ing or bay·o·net·ting.
to kill or wound with a bayonet.
This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.
A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet.
One of my men whom I knew for a womanish fellow, asked if he should put his bayonet through him.
At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.
The Canadians taught me bayonet fighting, and I led a bayonet charge in the Korean war.
Often a bayonet thrust was given before the Minie ball went crashing through the body.
They had to bayonet every one of those sleeping Germans, and killed every one without losing a man.
It orders its servants to lay aside pity and burn peasants in their homes, to bayonet women and children, to shoot old men.
They have too much at stake there to leave unless driven out by the point of the bayonet, as they were from Missouri and Illinois.
The British were in possession; and these conditions were dictated at the point of the bayonet.
1610s, originally a type of dagger; as a steel stabbing weapon fitted to the muzzle of a firearm, from 1670s, from French baionnette (16c.), said to be from Bayonne, city in Gascony where supposedly they first were made; or perhaps it is a diminutive of Old French bayon "crossbow bolt." The city name is from Late Latin baia "bay" + Basque on "good." As a verb from c.1700.