bayonet
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bay·o·net
[bey-uh-nit, -net, bey-uh-net] noun, verb, bay·o·net·ed or bay·o·net·ted, bay·o·net·ing or bay·o·net·ting. 
ə 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)
3.
to kill or wound with a bayonet.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a blade that can be attached to the muzzle of a rifle for stabbing in close combat |
| 2. | a type of fastening in which a cylindrical member is inserted into a socket against spring pressure and turned so that pins on its side engage in slots in the socket |
| —vb , -nets, -neting, -neted, -nets, -netting, -netted | |
| 3. | (tr) to stab or kill with a bayonet |
| [C17: from French baïonnette, from | |
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Word Origin & History
bayonet
1610s, from Fr. baionnette (16c.), said to be from Bayonne, city in Gascony where they first were made; or perhaps it is a dim. of O.Fr. bayon "crossbow bolt." The city name is from L.L. baia "bay" + Basque on "good."
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Example sentences
The shovel symbolizes the engineer mission and the bayonet symbolizes the combat mission.
The straight vertical geometry of the single-circuit bayonet condenser caused temperature stratification within the water tank.
He lowered his rifle and he let her run into his bayonet.
The troops beat the rioters unmercifully, forcing them to repeat their slogans at bayonet point.
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