What's the difference between bayonet and musket?

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.

Musket


Definition:

  • (n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.
  • (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For Didier Deschamps, the big call for this last-16 challenge was whether to pick Antoine Griezmann or Olivier Giroud to join Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena as the third attacking musketeer in France’s system.
  • (2) "Everybody's dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid.
  • (3) He said one word: D’Artagnan.” The noble musketeer fighting against the forces of evil is a positive portrayal.
  • (4) Kate Harwood, who has overseen hits including Cranford, Luther, Five Daughters and The Musketeers during her 24 years at the BBC , will join Fremantle as managing director of Euston Films in the summer.
  • (5) The second episode of BBC1's 10-part drama The Musketeers, which stars Peter Capaldi, suffered an audience dip of more than 1 million viewers, but remained the top-rating show in the 9pm hour against ITV's Mr Selfridge.
  • (6) Among them was 37-year-old Yusuf Idris, who bought a $40 (£26) home-made musket and joined his friends in a civilian vigilante effort after a savage assault in 2013 turned Baga into Nigeria’s new ground zero against Boko Haram .
  • (7) It was up against the last in the second series of ITV's Mr Selfridge, watched by 4.9 million viewers, a 21.5% share, once again ahead of its BBC1 drama rival, The Musketeers, which had 4.2 million viewers (18.6%) for its penultimate outing.
  • (8) Christie’s said interest in Picasso’s late period musketeer portraits has grown dramatically in recent years.
  • (9) When Lord North, prime minister at the time of the American revolution, received the news that British forces had lost the war, and with it the American colonies, he was reported to have been physically struck by the magnitude of the news, as if hit by a musket ball.
  • (10) Dedicated to the 1960s cinematographic heyday of Almería, the nearby provincial capital, it is plastered with location photos from Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and The Three Musketeers, which were all filmed round here.
  • (11) In the battle of the 9pm dramas, it was Mr Selfridge that took the ratings honours, the ITV department store series was watched by 4.9 million viewers (21.5%) ahead of BBC1's The Musketeers, with 4.7 million viewers (20.4%).
  • (12) Despite the audience dip Musketeers was once again easily ahead of Mr Selfridge.
  • (13) Two centuries ago the round shot had screamed about the streets and the crackle of muskets resounded in its encircling country lanes.
  • (14) The mix of fierce individualism with the spirit of the three musketeers ("All for one and one for all") has kept American society internally dynamic and externally on top of its game.
  • (15) "Hangs him plain as day in the corner of his living room, next to the musket he was shot with."
  • (16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
  • (17) Yet Redwood’s remark that the national argument resembled “the English civil war without muskets” was more than a quip.
  • (18) Later, due to its popularity, they broadened the series out to talk about everything from slow-motion musket firing to the chemical properties of caffeine.
  • (19) For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.
  • (20) She was memorably described as one of the "three musketeers" of independent film finance in the UK, along with two other contenders for the MediaGuardian 100 – Christine Langan , creative director of BBC Films, and Tanya Seghatchian , head of the UK Film Council's lottery supported development fund.