bilbo

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Further arguments are needless; draw off; I shall speak to you now by the way of bilbo.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Hence Falstaff describes himself in the buck-basket as— "Compassed, like a good bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

A Spanish bilbo, to lock the English by the legs.

From City Scenes or a peep into London by Darton, William

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 Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

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 Kennedy, John P.