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
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
Shakspeare humorously describes Falstaff in the buck-basket, like a good bilbo, coiled hilt to point.
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
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
A Spanish bilbo, to lock the English by the legs.
From City Scenes or a peep into London by William Darton
Soon another colonist felt the bilboes for “selling peeces and powder and shott to the Indians,” ever a bitterly-abhorred and fiercely-punished crime.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
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
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
The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
One was a man who obstinately refused to go to meeting, and after being warned several times was clapped into the bilboes by the tythingman.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
