bilbo

Out with your bilbo and maintain your words.'

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Castaldo calls the bilbo a “fated aspic,” upon the edge of which his “eye-balls crack to look,” and makes a raving exit from the stage, to a roaring laugh from the audience.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

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

The French marine still use a kind of leg-iron of the bilbo type.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

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

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

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 bilboes were iron bars fixed to the deck a little abaft the main-mast.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield

The bilboes is a bar of iron with fetters annexed to it, by which mutinous or disorderly sailors were anciently linked together.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

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