Six months pregnant, she returned to Detroit and was bayoneted in the back as she tried to enter her house.
His coal miner father had been the one whose luck ran out when he was bayoneted to death by a Japanese soldier.
What sheep he did not kill for the use of his men, he ordered to be bayoneted.
The enemy occupying it, some thirty in number, were bayoneted.
At that instant the officer was bayoneted by one of the 42nd.
So the artillerymen were bayoneted in the act of loading their guns.
The third was compelled to give the password, then bayoneted in turn.
Those of the enemy who gradually assembled were bayoneted, and the rest fled.
Five of the enemy were also bayoneted in a communication trench.
All who tried to escape were bayoneted, or driven back into the burning mill.
1610s, originally a type of dagger; as a steel stabbing weapon fitted to the muzzle of a firearm, from 1670s, from French baionnette (16c.), said to be from Bayonne, city in Gascony where supposedly they first were made; or perhaps it is a diminutive of Old French bayon "crossbow bolt." The city name is from Late Latin baia "bay" + Basque on "good." As a verb from c.1700.
