bayoneting
Rifle-mounted blade attack
Bayoneting is stabbing or killing with a bayonet—the blade attached to the muzzle of a rifle.
The word appears in accounts of close combat and military atrocities: Soldiers went through the village bayoneting survivors.
Also spelled bayonetting.
Forceful forward motion
assault · attack · melee · hand-to-hand · skirmish · engagement · advance · clash
Make hole through
- penetrateEnter or pass through
- skewerPointed cooking rod
- goreGraphic bloody violence
- transfixImmobilize through shock or piercing
puncture · stab · lance · spike · run-through · thrust · perforate · wound
Long-barreled shoulder weapon
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- scabbardProtective case for blades
- sheathProtective blade covering
musket · fixed · mounted · steel · socket · knife · sword · spike
Muzzle-loaded infantry firearm
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- cavalryMounted military force
- trenchLong narrow excavation
- colonialOf occupied territories
revolution · re-enactment · Napoleonic · WWI · flintlock · fusilier · charge · formation
thrust
Forceful forward motion
pierce · assault · attack · melee · hand-to-hand · skirmish · engagement · advance · clash · offensive
pierce
Make hole through
transfix · puncture · stab · lance · spike · run-through · thrust · perforate · wound · impalement
rifle
Long-barreled shoulder weapon
- bladeFlat cutting edge
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- scabbardProtective case for blades
sheath · musket · fixed · mounted · steel · socket · knife · sword · spike · lug
musket
Muzzle-loaded infantry firearm
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
- cavalryMounted military force
- trenchLong narrow excavation
colonial · revolution · re-enactment · Napoleonic · WWI · flintlock · fusilier · charge · formation · volley
soldiers
Military personnel who fight
platoon · regiment · battalion · drill · riflemen · footmen · squad · company · brigade · tactics
- piercingpierce, puncture, puncturing, stab, perforate
bayonetingsurrendering
Ceasing to resist
capitulating · shooting · firing · shelling · sniping
bayonetingretreating
Moving back from advance
withdrawing · falling back · fleeing · routing · disengaging
piercing, bayonet, bayonets, bayoneted, stabbings, bayonetting