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Bilboes (plurale tantum) are iron
restraints normally placed on a person's ankles. They have
commonly been used as leg
shackles to
restrain prisoners...
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would not let me sleep.
Methought I lay
Worse than the
mutines in the
bilboes. Rashly— And prais'd be
rashness for it—let us know Our
indiscretion sometimes...
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Laurence Sidney Bilboe (born 21
February 1998) is an
English footballer who
plays as a goalkeeper. He
started his
career at
Rotherham United, and had loan...
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Prospect Signs On Loan". www.oldhamathletic.co.uk. "Oldham sign Ntambwe,
Bilboe and Clarke". BBC Sport. "Oldham
Athletic 1–1
Carlisle United". BBC Sport...
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enforce conformity,
including the
branding iron, the
whipping post, the
bilboes and the hangman's noose.
Swearing and
blasphemy were illegal. In 1636,...
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enforce conformity,
including the
branding iron, the
whipping post, the
bilboes and the hangman's noose. The ****cuting
spirit was
shared by Plymouth...
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reference to
swords presumably made of
Biscayan iron
which he
calls "
bilboes",
suggesting that it is a word used
since at
least the
sixteenth century...
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cuffs were
known as
bilboes,
which were
among the many
tools of the
slave trade, and
which were
always in
short supply.
Bilboes were
mainly used on men...
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Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, vols. i. and ii. (1860–1862) Cox,
James A. "
Bilboes, Brands, and
Branks Archived 2019-08-10 at the
Wayback Machine: Colonial...
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