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# bayonet

«bayonet» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sharp steel blade that fits on the end of a rifle for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bayonets); verb (bayonets, bayoneted, bayoneting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bayonet is a sharp steel blade that fits on the end of a rifle for close fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#m1)

2) To bayonet someone is to stab them with a bayonet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old wars, a soldier's blade; in tales, a hedge of sharp points that keeps people out

### examples

- The soldier fixed his bayonet to the rifle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#x1)
- The guards stood at the gate with bayonets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#x2)
- The hedge was made of bayonets, sharp as knives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#x3)
- He was bayoneted in the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bayonet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bayonet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.