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

Shakspeare humorously describes Falstaff in the buck-basket, like a good bilbo, coiled hilt to point.

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

I wear a bilbo by my side, as you can see.

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

I have brought you a couple of dictionaries; let us see if your highness can find out the Latin for bilbo.

From The Lady of Lyons by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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