bilboes
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One was a man who obstinately refused to go to meeting, and after being warned several times was clapped into the bilboes by the tythingman.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
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
Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Here, Nicholls, this man is your prisoner; get the bilboes and clap them on him.
From The Missing Merchantman by William Heysham Overend
Up with the prisoner, and let us get him safely into the bilboes.'
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
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