bilbo

Hence Falstaff describes himself in the buck-basket as— "Compassed, like a good bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

A Spanish bilbo, to lock the English by the legs.

From City Scenes or a peep into London by William Darton

I have brought you a couple of dictionaries; let us see if your highness can find out the Latin for bilbo.

From The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

The French marine still use a kind of leg-iron of the bilbo type.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

That is true enough," said Bothwell, as he slowly rose; "put up your bilbo, Tom.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott

William James, for incontinency, was ſentenced to be ſet in the bilboes at Boſton and Salem, and bound in 20l.

From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Bill burst out, "I forgot he's in the bilboes, Miss. Now ain't that a dummed shame?"

From Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle

Shakspeare mentions Hamlet thinking of a kind of fighting, "That would not let me sleep: methought, I lay Worse than the mutines 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

I would not be over-severe upon the bilboes in their special use in those early colonial settlements.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

And another, the same year, for threatening—were he punished—he would carry the case to England, was summarily and fearlessly thrust into the bilboes.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle