bilboes

Example Sentences

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The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for “swearynge.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

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

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

One of the earliest of these degrading engines of confinement for public exposure, to be used in punishment in this country, was the bilboes.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

It was a rule that none should speak to a man in the bilboes.

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

Restraint, durance, confinement under arrest, or in the bilboes.

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