bilbo
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Castaldo calls the bilbo a “fated aspic,” upon the edge of which his “eye-balls crack to look,” and makes a raving exit from the stage, to a roaring laugh from the audience.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various
We shall come to bilbo and buff before long.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
A Spanish bilbo, to lock the English by the legs.
From City Scenes or a peep into London by William Darton
Further arguments are needless; draw off; I shall speak to you now by the way of bilbo.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott
Out with your bilbo and maintain your words.'
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Them apostles was fishermen, d’ye see, and the fishermen and longshore folk always was more peaceable and quieter-like than us deep-sea bilboes.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
Ye’ve got the bilboes an, and they make it bad running.
From Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn
Whether the Spanish Armada story is true or not, bilboes were certainly much used on board ship.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
Restraint, durance, confinement under arrest, or in the bilboes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
In the very oldest court records, which are still preserved, of the settlement of Boston—the Bay colony—appear the frequent sentences of offenders to be placed in the bilboes.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
