Definition of Bayoneting

1. Verb. (American English) (present participle of bayonet) ¹

2. Noun. A stabbing with a bayonet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bayoneting

1. bayonet [v] - See also: bayonet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayoneting

baying
bayings
bayldonite
bayle
bayles
bayleyite
baylike
baylisascariasis
baylissite
bayman
baymen
bayonet
bayonet forceps
bayonet hair
bayoneted
bayoneting (current term)
bayonetings
bayonets
bayonetted
bayonetting
bayonettings
bayou
bayous
bayplan
bayplans
bays
bayside
bayt
bayted
bayting

Literary usage of Bayoneting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"They don't fight like knights in a beastly tournament, but like rats in a common drain; that's more like it, bayoneting men in the back instead of the front ..."

2. Beyond the Lines, Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie by John James Geer (1863)
"First Sight of a Rebel Camp—Arraigned before Generals Jackson, Bragg, Hardee, Beauregard and Johnson—A Storm in Camp—bayoneting a Sleeping Man (? ..."

3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1917)
"Gray's statement of the cruel bayoneting of our soldiers at Andersonville is entirely consistent with the treatment they met from the beginning to the end ..."

4. Reminiscences of Charles Durand of Toronto, Barrister by Charles Durand (1897)
"were the words passed quietly through the ranks, and our leading bayonets were soon in front of the camp-fires, bayoneting many of the sleeping enemy. ..."

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