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Bilboes
Bilbo Bil"bo, n.; pl. Bilboes. 1. A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain. --Shak. 2. pl. A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. --Shak.

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- lawes". Bilboes appear occasionally in literature, including Hamlet (Act V, Scene 2: "Methought I lay worse than the mutinies in the bilboes") and the...
- 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...
- and the slave trade. Parts making up more than 80 bilboes have been found at the wreck site. As bilboes were typically used to shackle pairs of slaves together...
- of Shame displa**** at the Torture Museum in Amsterdam. Badge of shame Bilboes Cancel culture Cashiering Charivari Cucking stool Erotic humiliation Humiliation...
- 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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- Market Square. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stocks (restraints). Bilboes Shackling Shrew's fiddle Stock (cage) Wheel clamp "Lysias, Against Theomnestus...
- again in 1973. Some artifacts were collected from the wreck, including bilboes, iron shackles that were used to restrain slaves. When they realized that...
- enforce conformity, including the branding iron, the whipping post, the bilboes and the hangman's noose. Notable individuals ****cuted by the Puritans...
- name for Bilbao, the major city in the Basque Country of northern Spain Bilboes, iron restraints placed on a person's ankles or wrists Bilbo (sword), a...