verb
- attacking or stabbing with a bayonet (a blade attached to the end of a rifle)
Usage: military; present participle of ‘bayonet’
Examples
- The soldiers were trained in bayoneting techniques during combat drills.
- Historical accounts describe bayoneting as a common close-combat tactic.
- The manual included instructions for bayoneting enemy positions.
- Civil War reenactors practiced bayoneting straw dummies.
- The regiment advanced, bayoneting their way through the trenches.