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The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.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