bilboes
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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
I'll give him a passport to Winchester bilboes.
From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous
A slang term for the ship's irons or 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
It was a rule that none should speak to a man in the bilboes.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
Two weeks later his trial was had, and he was ordered "to be set into the bilboes," and afterwards sent prisoner to England.
From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
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