(n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seen as a warm and witty liberal, he founded the parliamentary bicycle pool and has earned the moniker the "bicycling baronet" (the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail in 1982).
(2) Son of a baronet It also plays to the most damaging caricature of Osborne, as the privileged son of a baronet, keener on protecting his wealthy friends than helping ordinary Britons: something he has fought hard to shrug off by introducing his “national living wage”, for example.
(3) It would be easy to take a cheap trick and say we would all like to have been born to the daughter of a baronet and gone to Eton, but let us take him at his word.
(4) Snobbery these days is not for baronets or the peerage, but it is recognisable instantly in the Bath pump-rooms where a stifling correctness takes one straight to the New Labour elite.
(5) When you're 15, Cinderella stories, too, seem hopelessly dated; and to be confronted with Elizabeth, a pantomime Ugly Sister, on the shelf and in drag, waiting for the "baronet-blood", which never came, and Mary, a constant complainer stuck in the shires with a huntin', fishin', shootin' husband, was as undesirable as having to get to know the Cinders who did all the dull jobs and was "only Anne".
(6) He is entitled to claim a baronetcy and be known as the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt, 2nd Baronet – dad was governor of New Zealand and, as it happens, a 1924 bronze-winning Olympic athlete in the Chariots of Fire 100m race.
(7) Tam Dalyell , also known as Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet, who retired in 2005 after 43 years in parliament, says the abuse of expenses goes back to 1963 and then Conservative chief whip Brigadier Martin Redmayne.
(8) On the surface, the old Etonian bicycling Baronet will look like a deeply inappropriate person to restore to an administration seeking to shed the patrician image created by Andrew Mitchell episode.
(9) His son, Edward, the 2nd Baronet, became the 1st Baron in 1911.
(10) Sir Charles Tennant, a grandson of the bleach inventor, was a Glasgow MP who was the father of Margot, Lady Asquith, and was created 1st Baronet in 1885.
(11) After all, he is the future 18th baronet of Ballentaylor.
(12) Photograph: Alamy Killerton Distance from junction about 7 miles from either 28 (southbound) or 30 (northbound) Follow signs for Pinhoe and Broadclyst on the B3181 Quintessentially English herbaceous borders, sweeping lawns and gravel paths are part of this vast estate that includes 20 farms and at least 200 cottages, given to the nation by its owner, Labour MP, 15th baronet and CND co-founder Sir Richard Acland, in the 1940s.
(13) The landed wealth elite, including men such as George Osborne’s direct ancestors, the Anglo-Irish baronets of Ballentaylor , dominated the House of Lords.
Bayonet
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.
(v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember cycling through London at 6am and I had this vision of Albert [Joey's human friend] meeting an incredibly injured horse and putting it down on the battlefield with his bayonet.
(2) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(3) Breivik told the court he planned to handcuff her, before "decapitating" her using a bayonet on his rifle and then filming the execution on an iPhone.
(4) The Republicans opened up a new line of attack Wednesday accusing Barack Obama of trivialising the election by talking about Big Bird, binders and bayonets because he could not run on his first-term record.
(5) In addition to these dystrophies due to abnormal formation of the matrix, there are other malformations, bayonet hair and the Pohl-Beau line, which are secondary to temporary disturbances in other volumetric control parameters.
(6) One young girl said hot coals had been dropped on her stomach because her father was suspected of supporting the OLF, while a teacher described how he was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet after he refused to teach “propaganda about the ruling party” to students.
(7) From the 18th-century continental wars to the imperial battles, the world conflicts, and the postcolonial fighting of our own times, the British have prided themselves on being first with the bayonet.
(8) The bayonet issue has been disputed, however, with many soldiers posting pictures of their bayonets online.
(9) The forensic medical expertise revealed that they were first wounded by rifle fire, then tortured and finally executed by hand axes and bayonets.
(10) When the British attacked Egypt in 1956, he tried to haul down the union flag at the British consulate in Dhaka, and was bayoneted by police: a wound he still suffers.
(11) The bayonet and grenades were taken from him and he was handcuffed.
(12) We call this, "transverse bayonet dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal joint."
(13) Spines around the oral sucker are bayonet-shaped, and those on the rest part of the body surface are basically chisel-shaped.
(14) Crook followed his colleagues after arming himself with a pair of grenades and a bayonet.
(15) Jeremy Paxman did not take kindly to Jon Snow's suggestion that he wear a tie "Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed.
(16) A series of modified gyratory bayonets instruments is described.
(17) This duct should not be considered inert, as part of a theoretical bayonet-like pathway which is more topographical than functional: the buccinator muscle and STENSEN's duct with its valvules and terminal siphons should be considered together as forming the real salivation apparatus.
(18) • One of the first acts under Bower's leadership was to disband the investigations team – because, in the words of the then chair Barbara Young, it was being used to "bayonet the wounded on the battlefield".
(19) I was guarded by two soldiers with Kalashnikovs and bayonets.
(20) The visual test was reproduced by a 7.5-v bayonet lamp and socket.