bilboes
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The old-fashioned arrangement of iron bars called the "bilboes" was fastened to the bulkhead at the bow end of the alleyway.
From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader
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
Whether the Spanish Armada story is true or not, bilboes were certainly much used on board ship.
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
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
Restraint, durance, confinement under arrest, or 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
