I. noun
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Gregg immortalized himself by replying that his ammunition was exhausted but that he thought he could hold with the bayonet .
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Hearing noises downstairs, he got out of bed, picked up his bayonet and went to investigate.
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Then he threw his bayonet at me.
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There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet !
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They raised and lowered their muskets, fixed 18-inch-long bayonets to their weapons and demonstrated various marching maneuvers.
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Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.
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Your boyfriend Broadway joe has a bayonet .
II. verb
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He was bayoneted to death by a soldier in front of two priests who had tried to protect him.
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I expected to be shot or bayoneted soon.
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Sons would be bayoneted and hung from poles, the women shot.
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The troopers then fanned out to disarm the blacks; two blacks were shot and two bayoneted in the process.
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They bayoneted 25 pregnant women in the abdomen and beheaded 52 children.