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How to pronounce bayonet in English?

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Type Words
Type of knife
Type Words
Type of knife, stab

Examples of bayonet

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They gazed goggle-eyed as Dad showed them where he learned how to use a bayonet.
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The French were routed at bayonet point with no casualties suffered by the 33rd.
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The French quickly recaptured the border town of Altkirch with a bayonet charge.
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Barofsky keeps a FARC bayonet on his office windowsill as a memento of the case.
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Different authorities credit both Hugh Mackay and Vauban for the socket bayonet.
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The Battle of Kapyong was a close-in encounter and often at the end of a bayonet.
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The flagpoles were of polished black wood and had a white metal bayonet finial.
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This was suppressed by force, including the use of the bayonet by British troops.
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They surprised the small Boer piquet and drove them off the Kop at bayonet point.
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More examples
  • A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
  • Stab or kill someone with a bayonet
  • A bayonet (from French bau00EFonnette) is a knife, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit in, on, over or underneath the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar weapon, doubling the weapon as a spear. In this regard, it is an ancillary close-quarter combat or last-resort weapon...
  • A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offence and defence. ...
  • (Bayonets) provided a useful addition to the weapon-system when an enemy charging to contact could cross the musket's killing ground (a range of approximately 100 yards/metres at the most optimistic) at the expense of perhaps only one or two volleys from their waiting opponents.
  • A style of bulb base which uses keyways instead of threads to connect the bulb to the fixture base. The bulb is locked in place by pushing it down and turning it clockwise.
  • (pronounced bay-uh-net) A metal blade, like a long knife or short sword, that could be attached to the end of a musket or rifle-musket and used as a spear or pike in hand-to-hand combat.
  • Knife-like weapon attached to the front end of a musket or rifle
  • A sword for stabbing attached to the end of a gun. The Korean War witnessed what may well prove to be the last bayonet charges in military history.