bayonet
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1. bayonet - Noun
2. bayonet - Verb
Meaning
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.
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.
To stab with a bayonet.
To compel or drive by the bayonet.
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The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.
My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet.
It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.
Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.
At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.