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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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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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- 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...