bayonet : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Clutch.

Webster 1913

• a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket.

Webster 1913

• a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; called also trowel bayonet.

Webster 1913

• noun tall yucca of the southwestern United States and Mexico having a woody stem and stiff swordlike pointed leaves and a large cluster of white flowers
  Yucca baccata.
  
• noun a stiff yucca with a short trunk; found in the southern United States and tropical America; has rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers
  Yucca aloifolia.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Yucca alorifolia) with rigid spine-tipped leaves. The name is also applied to other similar plants of the Southwestern United States and mexico. Called also Spanish daggers.

Webster 1913

• a bayonet shaped somewhat like a sword, and which can be used as a sword.

Webster 1913

• . See Spade bayonet, under Spade.

Webster 1913