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- 1. an iron bar with sliding shackles, formerly used for confining a prisoner's ankles.
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Bilboes (plurale tantum) are iron restraints normally placed on a person's ankles. They have commonly been used as leg shackles to restrain prisoners for different purposes until the modern ages. Bilboes were also used on slave ships, such as the Henrietta Marie.
Bilboes definition: a long iron bar with two sliding shackles, formerly used to confine the ankles of a prisoner. See examples of BILBOES used in a sentence.
a long bar of iron with sliding shackles used to confine the feet of prisoners especially on shipboard… See the full definition
bilboes. Quick Reference. Long bars or bolts, with a padlock on the end, on which iron shackles could slide. They were used on board ship to confine the legs of prisoners in a similar manner to putting someone in the stocks.
(ˈbɪlbəʊz ) plural noun. a long iron bar with two sliding shackles, formerly used to confine the ankles of a prisoner. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C16: perhaps changed from Bilbao. Examples of 'bilboes' in a sentence. bilboes.
An early English definition says simply, if not vaguely, that bilboes are “A sort of punishment at sea, when an Offender is laid in Irons, or set in a kind of Stocks” (Philips, 1706: BI-BI). An early-nineteenth century Spanish dictionary gives a fuller and more telling definition for grillos (the Spanish word for bilboes).
Define bilboes. bilboes synonyms, bilboes pronunciation, bilboes translation, English dictionary definition of bilboes. n. pl. bil·boes An iron bar to which sliding fetters are attached, formerly used to shackle the feet of prisoners.
