Definition of Bayonetting

1. Verb. (British) (present participle of bayonet) ¹

2. Noun. A stabbing with a bayonet. ¹

3. Noun. Overlap of fracture fragments in a longbone fracture resulting in shortening of the extremity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bayonetting

1. bayonet [v] - See also: bayonet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayonetting

bayles
bayleyite
baylike
baylisascariasis
baylissite
bayman
baymen
bayonet
bayonet forceps
bayonet hair
bayoneted
bayoneting
bayonetings
bayonets
bayonetted
bayonetting (current term)
bayonettings
bayou
bayous
bayplan
bayplans
bays
bayside
bayt
bayted
bayting
bayts
baywood
baywoods
baza

Literary usage of Bayonetting

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

1. Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches by John Fraser (1890)
"camp fires; bayonetting many of the sleeping enemy. The men then prepared to adjust their flints. During this operation a volley came from out of the ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"... nothing could surpass the spirit with which Ripley's American brigade charged the British guns and captured them, bayonetting the gunners. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and bayonetting some seamen, who pertinaciously clung to their guns, took possession of two, out of the five pieces of cannon, which had so severely ..."

4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Up close, almost within bayonetting distance of the enemy, who lined their breastworks with bravo and reckless traitors, stood Mitchell's boys, ..."

5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"When the word was given they made for the quarries as hard as they could run, jumped down, and began bayonetting every man they met. ..."

6. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"as they were bayonetting the weeping and kneeling inhabitants, mothers with their infants, aged and venerable men, ladies of distinction, children, ..."

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