(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.
Handle
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
(v. t.) To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully.
(v. t.) To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
(v. t.) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
(v. t.) To deal with; to make a business of.
(v. t.) To treat; to use, well or ill.
(v. t.) To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
(v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
(v. i.) To use the hands.
(n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.
(n.) That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(3) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(4) Control of cell calcium handling and transport may be abnormal in hypertension.
(5) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(6) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(7) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(8) In this study, we examined renal tubular cell handling of digoxin and ouabain using LLC-PK1 cells, a model of proximal renal tubular cells.
(9) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(10) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
(11) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(12) Techniques are described for the special handling of these cells as well as suitable assay procedures.
(13) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(14) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
(15) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(16) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(17) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
(19) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(20) The greatest care should be exercised by industry in handling tremolite or materials contaminated with it.