bilboes
Example Sentences
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Here, Nicholls, this man is your prisoner; get the bilboes and clap them on him.
From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend
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
In the very oldest court records, which are still preserved, of the settlement of Boston—the Bay colony—appear the frequent sentences of offenders to be placed in the bilboes.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
Bill burst out, "I forgot he's in the bilboes, Miss. Now ain't that a dummed shame?"
From Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle
One of the earliest of these degrading engines of confinement for public exposure, to be used in punishment in this country, was the bilboes.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
