bayonet
has definitions from the fields of military,arms
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[ noun ] (military,arms) a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)They marched with bayonets fixed , and as fixed on their faces was anger , fear , and torment . One moment , the road was filled with disciplined troops , marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; the next , a cloud of gun_smoke covered a screaming fury of sound , out of which the redcoat soldiers emerged with their bayonets and their cursing fury . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He thought_of Simms_Purdew , who once had risen at the edge of a cornfield , a maniacal scream on his lips , and swung a clubbed musket like a flail to beat down the swirl of Rebel bayonets about him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] stab or kill someone with a bayonet
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