(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.
Muzzle
Definition:
(v. i.) The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.
(v. i.) The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.
(v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting.
(v. t.) To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action.
(v. t.) To fondle with the closed mouth.
(v. i.) To bring the mouth or muzzle near.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using two monoclonal antibodies described in the preceding paper we determined by immunofluorescence microscopy the distribution of an integral membrane protein of the desmosomal domain, the major glycopolypeptide of Mr 165,000 (bovine muzzle epidermal desmosome band 3; desmoglein) in various normal tissues, tumors and cultured cell lines from several mammalian species.
(2) Money is pouring into Conservative campaign headquarters, new electoral themes are being framed and tested, and previously muzzled ministers are being actively encouraged by No 10 to tear into Labour.
(3) By contrast, noxious mechanical (pinches) and chemical (subcutaneous formalin injection) stimulations and deep cooling (by immersion in water at 0 degrees C) of the muzzle did not alter the spinal release of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like material.
(4) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(5) He brooks no dissent or opposition and muzzles media outlets that dare question the wisdom of his rule.
(6) In 25 cases of muzzle and nasal septum injuries operative treatment was performed by different methods.
(7) Now Muslim Brotherhood supporters are being killed, arrested or muzzled; the former president is detained; and the army has issued an arrest warrant for the Brotherhood's spiritual leader .
(8) Seven of 8 female mice exhibited swollen muzzles and footpads 8 days after inoculation.
(9) Treatment with carbaphethiol, a parenterally-active aminopeptidase inhibitor, markedly increased YGG levels and lengthened the duration of the increase produced by pinching the muzzle.
(10) A study of change in muzzle velocity due to freezing and water immersion of .22, long rifle, K. F. cartridges has been presented.
(11) From this position, with the forelimbs and muzzle engaged in the cervical canal, delivery was quickly effected.
(12) Desmosomal fractions from bovine muzzle epidermis contain, in addition, a major polypeptide of Mr approximately 75,000 ("band 6 protein") which differs from all other desmosomal proteins so far identified by its positive charge (isoelectric at pH approximately 8.5 in the denatured state) and its avidity to bind certain type I cytokeratins under stringent conditions.
(13) The incident blast waves simulated artillery muzzle blast.
(14) The distribution of glycoconjugates in the muzzle of young adult Holstein cows has been studied by means of selected light-microscopic histochemical methods, including lectin histochemistry.
(15) A committee established by the master of the rolls, Lord Neuberger, to examine the use of injunctions and super-injunctions to muzzle press reporting is due to report next month.
(16) In C. aethiops, the contribution of IMW and CL is less in the first component (52.7% of total variance), suggesting that the biochemical forces of mastication are more complex to adapt the mandible to a shorter muzzle and a particular diet.
(17) Authentic black-powder muzzle-loader weapons and replicas are used today primarily for hunting game such as deer and hogs.
(18) This is somebody, the former head of the KGB, who is responsible for crushing democracy in Russia, muzzling the press, throwing political dissidents in jail, countering American efforts to expand freedom at every turn; is currently making decisions that’s leading to a slaughter in Syria ,” the outgoing president said.
(19) These military injuries are characterized by either very high mass, low-velocity shrapnel wounds or by high muzzle velocity missiles causing extensive destruction of tissue.
(20) (2) A study of the effect of simulating gun muzzle blast wave on sheep indicated that in the single explosion, the threshold overpressure values inflicting the injury of internal organs were: Lung-37.27 kPa, G-I tract-41.0 kPa; the upper respiratory tract-negative until 73 kPa, while in the multiple (20 times) explosions, they were 23.7, 23.7 and 41.4 kPa, respectively.