Noun: bayonet
| Singular | bayonet |
| Plural | bayonets |
Sample Sentences
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Fig. 3. Its bayonet, to be fixed by sticking the handle into the muzzle of the musquet. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xvi:]
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“Well, the proper way to kill a man with a bayonet is this: First you thrust it in under the ribs—here.” [1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 515:]
Nouns inflected like bayonet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. French Bayonne
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
5. Late Latin -ittus
6. Old French -et
7. Middle French -et
8. French -etder.
9. French -ette
10. French baïonnettebor.
11. English bayonet
12. Borrowed from French baïonnette, named after the French town of Bayonne, where the plug bayonet was invented. See: French Nouns '
baïonnette'.