bayonet

Etymology
From, named after the French town of , where the was invented.

Noun

 * 1)  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 offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Akan:
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: حَرْبَة, سُونْكِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: багне́т
 * Bengali: সঙ্গীন,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, bodák
 * Danish: bajonet
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bajoneto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Fula:
 * Georgian: ხიშტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: સંગીન
 * Haitian Creole: bayonèt
 * Hebrew: כִּידוֹן רוֹבֶה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: byssustingur
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, バヨネット
 * Kazakh: найза, сүңгі, ұштық
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: durtuvas
 * Macedonian: бајонет
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: cliwe-gunney
 * Maori: pēneti
 * Norman: baïonnette
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: سونگو, سنگو, سونگی
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: baignet
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бајонет, бајунет, бајунета
 * Roman:, , bajuneta
 * Slovak: bajonet, bodák
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ดาบปลายปืน
 * Tigrinya:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: süngü
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سنگین
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: bidog
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: ыстыык
 * Yoruba:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To stab with a bayonet.
 * 2)  To compel or drive by the bayonet.

Usage notes
The spelling bayoneting and bayoneted are preferred in the US, while bayonetting and bayonetted are preferred in the UK.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  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 offence and defence. Originally, the bayonet was made with a handle, which needed to be fitted into the bore of the musket after the soldier had fired.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.