Crossword clues for bayonet
bayonet
- Stab, in a way
- Rifle attachment
- Gun point?
- A knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
- Muzzle blade
- Knife for the end of a rifle
- Sticker finally put on first compartment
- Stab at one by going mad
- Spike, neat boy when dressed up
- Blade on a rifle
- Sharp weapon
- Civil War weapon
- Kind of blade
- Gun attachment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bayonet \Bay"o*net\, n. [F. bayonnette, ba["i]onnette; -- so called, it is said, because the first bayonets were made at Bayonne.]
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(Mil.) 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 offense and defense.
Note: Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which required to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
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(Mach.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
Bayonet clutch. See Clutch.
Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket.
--Knight.bayonet mount, (photography) a coupling mechanism for attaching removable lenses to the body of a camera, using a bayonet socket.
bayonet socket, a coupling mechanism for attaching matching cylindrical parts to each other, where each of which has an arced L-shaped slot with the longer side perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder, such that the slots slide inside each other. There is also usually a knoblike projection on the mount so that when the two parts to be connected are fully inserted in proper alignment, they are locked in place. It is designed for rapid coupling and decoupling, requiring the turning of one part through only a small arc, in place of a screw-type arrangement, which requires several full turns.
Bayonet \Bay"o*net\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bayoneted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bayoneting.]
To stab with a bayonet.
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To compel or drive by the bayonet.
To bayonet us into submission.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) 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. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which required to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired. 2 (context engineering English) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To stab with a bayonet. 2 (context transitive English) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
WordNet
n. a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
v. stab or kill someone with a bayonet
[also: bayonetting, bayonetted]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Bayonet'' (Italian:Arma bianca'') is a 1936 Italian historical film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli and starring Nerio Bernardi, Leda Gloria and Mimì Aylmer. It portrays the life of Giacomo Casanova.
A bayonet (from French baïonnette) 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. Some modern bayonets, such as the one used on the British SA80 assault rifle, can be used as wire cutters when combined with their scabbards. Knife-shaped bayonets—when not fixed to a gun barrel—have long been utilized by soldiers in the field as general purpose cutting implements.
A bayonet is a blade fastened to the end of a gun or rifle, which may have a matching bayonet lug.
Bayonet can also refer to:
- Bayonet mount, an electrical fastening mechanism
- Lens mount, sometimes as a bayonet type
- Operation Bayonet, a covert operation directed by Israel's Mossad
- HMAS Bayonet (P 101), an Australian naval patrol boat
- Bayonet Constitution, a nickname for the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Spanish bayonet (disambiguation), any of several plants in the genus Yucca or Hesperoyucca
- Bayonet (film), a 1936 Italian film
- Fixed Bayonets!, a 1951 American war film
Bayonet is an American hardcore punk band that formed in 2009. The group features Jeremy Comitas formerly of The Banner, Paul Klein of Suburban Scum, Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail, and Will Putney of Fit for an Autopsy. Putney is also an established record producer who has engineered albums for Bloodsimple, Suicide Silence and The Human Abstract among others.
On July 26, 2011, Bayonet released their self-titled debut EP through Mightier Than Sword Records. The EP was met with generally favorable reviews. Tim Newbound of Rock Sound gave the release an eight out of ten and commented that the EP features, "full-on, frenetic, galloping songs that deliver massive tunes through the sheer, infectious force of timeless, glorious hardcore," and that it's "more fun than should feasibly be crammed into 10 minutes." Writing for Alternative Press, Jason Schreurs scored the album three out of five stars praising the record's aggression, however he also noted that the EP "gets a little awkward" when vocalist Buddy Nielsen sings with his Senses Fail-style melody, and says that he should "bury his head, let the rage consume him and try to forget about melody altogether." Lyrically, the self-titled EP touches on themes of angst and religion.
On March 28, 2013, Vocalist Buddy Nielsen hinted the break-up of Bayonet, as stated in a KillYourStereo interview, during the release of Senses Fail's latest album Renacer, that "...Bayonet is basically done because there is no need to have that outlet as a side project when it’s now pretty much in Senses Fail."
Usage examples of "bayonet".
Blood-maddened redcoats, fed on arrack and rum, roamed the vast stronghold with bayonets and greed both sharpened.
Their guards watched them with curious eyes, their hands thrust into pockets, their loaded and bayoneted muskets slung on cold shoulders.
Lieutenant Gibbons had tried to kill Sharpe and how Patrick Harper had bayoneted the Lieutenant.
A sergeant was bayoneted on the dungheap, while a corporal, backed against the barn wall and screaming for quarter, received two bayonets in his belly instead.
The uniform was on fire, and the mob behind fell on the Spartan wounded in the street below the Marine position with clubs and tools and bayoneted rifles.
Bengalis and Highlanders hunted through the ruins, their war cries shrill as they bayoneted and shot the garrison, while behind them, before the smoke of the carcasses had even begun to fade or the fighting in the mill die down, the engineers were constructing a stouter bridge across which they could haul their siege guns so they could turn the old mill into a breaching battery.
Here one day the Germans made a sudden sortie, drove back the Fusiliers for a few minutes, and killed the Red Cross roomful, bayoneting the wounded men.
There was lobster bisque and baked salmon en croute and roasted vegetables and a leg of lamb and rosemary focaccia and watercress salad and a fabulously ornate wedding cake, chocolate in honor of the groom, that was topped with an odd pair: a pilot sporting a Red Baron hat and a sadistic-looking teacher whose ruler looked like a bayonet.
One of them prodded the fuel bladder with the barrel of his Kalashnikov, then began fixing his bayonet.
But no sooner did the herd, by some presumed wonderful instinct of the Sperm Whale, become notified of the three keels that were after them,-- though as yet a mile in their rear,--than they rallied again, and forming in close ranks and battalions, so that their spouts all looked like flashing lines of stacked bayonets, moved on with redoubled velocity.
They carry knives, clubs, pistols, zip guns, brass knucks, rifles, sawed-off shotguns, bayonets, baseball bats, broken bottles, gasoline bombs, bricks, rocks, bicycle chains .
They had done magnificently, but there is a limit to human endurance, and no longer would these peasants face the bursting lyddite and the bayonets of angry soldiers.
Satsuma vase among old cameras, militaria, bayonets, photos of pale youths in uniform staring beyond life, and some decent Victorian watercolours of cottages with village women in aprons, with a few fruitwood boxes and other treen.
Nowithey moved forward, a sudden lunge, muskets firing, bayonets clashing together, but there were too many men in blue, and suddenly the small group of rebels was surrounded, hands went up, muskets hit the ground.
He stripped off the wrapper, and the bayonet which had killed the numismatist was revealed, blood-clotted and ugly.