baggonet

I shall depend chiefly on the baggonet, which is the best tool to put an Injin up with; and as he falls back, before my charge, we must keep him under as warm a fire as possible.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The corporal, moreover, fixed his "baggonet," as he called the formidable, glittering instrument that usually embellished the end of his musket -- a MUSKET being the weapon he chose to carry, while the bee-hunter himself was armed with a long western RIFLE.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

It's my opinion, give old Prime a loaded musket with a baggonet, and he'd do more work than Goliah and Shakspeare together, with their spears.

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

Well, one afternoon as I was cutting a bit o 'grass at th' bottom o 'th' orchard for the osses, again they came from ploughing the fallows, I heard a shriek that went through me like a baggonet.

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

"You coward," I cried in a passion; "you daren't a 'done that if my hands were loose, and I hadn't this baggonet-wound in me."

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

"Stand where you are, fellow, or I'll be into you with something sharper than a baggonet."

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

I speak of a charge as I see it; and the soldier who relies on a tomahawk instead of a baggonet, should stand in his tracks, and give tomahawk play.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

If an Injin prefers his knife and his tomahawk to a baggonet, it is no affair of mine.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"Yes, sir," returned the soldier, "Onoah is a good guide, and a great hand at a council-fire; but these is war-times, and we must stand to our arms, each accordin 'to his edication and temper -- you, sir, with preachin' and prayin ', and I with gun and baggonet."

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

English used to boast that the Americans wouldn't 'stand up to the rack,' if the baggonet was set to work; 'but this was before we got our own toothpicks,' said the old man.

Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820