bilboes

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Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.

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I'll give him a passport to Winchester bilboes.

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It is little to my credit that I took more interest in the fact that Bilbao used to supply Shakespeare's cronies with rapiers, under the name of "bilboes," than in statistics regarding those millions of tons of ore which its iron mines are now annually exporting to Great Britain.

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The bilboes were the first engine of punishment in Boston, and were used until 1639, and perhaps much later.

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The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.

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