[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To stab or pierce with a bayonet.
c. 1700. Gentl. Instruc., 535 (D.). I came not into the world to be cannonaded or bagonetted out of it.
1858. Beveridge, Hist. Ind., III. VII. iii. 85. The Arabs within were bayoneted.
2. To drive at the point of the bayonet; to coerce or compel as by military force.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 325. You send troops to sabre and to bayonet us into a submission.
1863. Commonwealth (Boston), 18 Feb., 65. It has been bayoneted up to it by the pressure of outside public opinion.
