"socket" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They have been forged for durability so as not to break when twisting; this was often the problem with long and slender socket bayonets.
- Soon "socket" bayonets would incorporate both ring mounts and an offset blade, keeping the bayonet well away from the muzzle blast of the musket barrel.
- Henceforward, the socket bayonet became, with the musket or other firearm, the typical weapon of French infantry.
- The socket bayonet had by then been adopted by most European armies.
- While the British Army eventually discarded the sword bayonet, the socket bayonet survived the introduction of the rifled musket into British service in 1854.
- That such bayonets were far heavier than standard socket bayonets was not a disadvantage since they were rarely fixed.
- He wondered how soon he could get socket bayonets, unknown here-and-now, produced.
- Because it was so short, its socket bayonet seemed the longer.
- The Springfield Model 1861 was equipped with a triangular socket bayonet.
- Infantry and dragoon rifles were issued with quadrangular socket bayonets.
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