Usually means: Knife attached to a rifle.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bayonet: Merriam-Webster
  2. bayonet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bayonet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bayonet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bayonet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bayonet, bayonet: Wordnik
  7. bayonet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bayonet: Wiktionary
  9. bayonet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bayonet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bayonet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bayonet, bayonet: Dictionary.com
  13. bayonet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bayonet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bayonet (band), Bayonet (disambiguation), Bayonet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bayonet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bayonet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bayonet: Rhymezone
  19. Bayonet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bayonet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bayonet: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bayonet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bayonet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Bayonet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. bayonet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bayonet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bayonet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bayonet: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bayonet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bayonet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See bayoneted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (military) 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.
noun:  (engineering) 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.
verb:  (transitive) To stab with a bayonet.
verb:  (transitive) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

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