bilbo
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That is true enough," said Bothwell, as he slowly rose; "put up your bilbo, Tom.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
Sir John and master mine, I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
We shall come to bilbo and buff before long.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
A Spanish bilbo, to lock the English by the legs.
From City Scenes or a peep into London by William Darton
Sir Iohn, and Maister mine, I combat craue Of this same laten bilbo.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
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
Two weeks later his trial was had, and he was ordered "to be set into the bilboes," and afterwards sent prisoner to England.
From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.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
Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
I'll give him a passport to Winchester bilboes.
From Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen by Anonymous
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