bilboes
Example Sentences
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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
The bilboes were the first engine of punishment in Boston, and were used until 1639, and perhaps much later.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
"Good heavens, who wants to lock his ship in these accursed bilboes?" cried the purser.
From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for “swearynge.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
The bilboes were iron bars fixed to the deck a little abaft the main-mast.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
