(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.
Machete
Definition:
(n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of men with machetes have been roaming the ruins seeking supplies of food or water.
(2) Plainclothes soldiers, one of them with a plastic-handled kitchen knife in the pocket of his shorts and a machete visible under his football shirt stopped and questioned any outsiders.
(3) In response, predominantly Christian forces known as the anti-balaka (balaka means machete in Sango, the local language) launched counterattacks against the Seleka and perceived Muslim collaborators.
(4) Blakelock, while on the ground, suffered eight machete wounds to the scalp, a knife driven into the back of the mouth with only the handle visible, 13 knife wounds to the back of the body, and wounds to his hands and arms.
(5) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .
(6) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
(7) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
(8) She had been slashed with a machete, hit on the head, thrown into a hole and raped.
(9) The Haitian in whose house in Port-au-Prince we are staying – a prominent businessman and generally very pro-America – keeps a cherished machete on his wall.
(10) Robert Doggart, 63, and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light-armor piercing”, a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
(11) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(12) Chaves is a rough, tough, durable fighter who is very dangerous,” said Brook, who was unable to fight for almost seven months prior to beating Dan in March, having been stabbed in the leg with a machete while on holiday in Tenerife last September.
(13) As interahamwe leader Adalbert Munzigura told Hatzfeld in A Time For Machetes: "They needed intoxication, like someone who calls louder and louder for a bottle.
(14) On 1 March, black-clad assailants killed 29 people with knives and machetes at a train station in the south-western city of Kunming.
(15) Michelle had been walking along the road in the village of Monjas, in Jalapa, about 50 miles from Guatemala City, when a man on a motorcycle pulled up alongside her with a machete tied to his thigh.
(16) Frances Toor, whose work had always been supported or at least tolerated by successive governments, began to fear that the new, highly conservative and anti-left government would close down her Mexican Folkways, as El Machete had been closed down by the government in 1929 (though it continued to be published, illegally, from 1929 to 1934).
(17) "If I'm checking IDs at roadblocks, knowing that person is going to be clubbed to death, I'm as responsible as if I wielded the machete myself," said Capin.
(18) Witnesses claimed that some of the miners were armed with pistols and fired first, while also charging the police with machetes and sticks.
(19) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
(20) Two years later, it was there that he was hacked to death by half a dozen machete-wielding men.