bilboes
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John Smith, of Medford, for ſwearing, being penitent, was ſet in bilboes.
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
Shakspeare mentions Hamlet thinking of a kind of fighting, "That would not let me sleep: methought, I lay 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 Sir Edward Belcher
The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for “swearynge.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
The Royal James hurried down the Chesapeake for a day and a night before Captain Bonnet gave orders to free the young prisoners below in the bilboes.
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
"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
