bilboes

Example Sentences

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Ye’ve got the bilboes an, and they make it bad running.

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

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 Masefield, John

Here, Nicholls, this man is your prisoner; get the bilboes and clap them on him.

From The Missing Merchantman by Overend, William Heysham

The Royal James hurried down the Chesapeake for a day and a night before Captain Bonnet gave orders to free the young prisoners below in the bilboes.

From The Black Buccaneer by Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren)

The stocks soon superseded the bilboes and were near neighbors and amusement purveyors to the tavern.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse