bilboes
Example Sentences
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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 Upward, Allen
Ye’ve got the bilboes an, and they make it bad running.
From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville
Shakspeare makes Hamlet sleep "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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
Whether the Spanish Armada story is true or not, bilboes were certainly much used on board ship.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse
Now, sir, if you are in no great hurry, and have a mind to travel in company with a martyr, just as soon as I am free of these bilboes, we'll take the road together.
From The Amateur Gentleman by Farnol, Jeffery
