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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. According to legend, the device was invented in Bilbao and was imported into ...
Search for: 'bilboes' in Oxford 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. It was a punishment usually known on board as putting a man in irons and continued in use ...
The first attribute is that hobbits are short, making it easy for them to fit into small spaces. Next, they can move very quietly. Biblo also has excellent manual dexterity, and agility enabling ...
Bilboes were also found in the Molasses Reef Wreck, a Spanish wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands from very early in the 16th century, which may have been a slave ship hunting Lucayans in the Bahamas. Bilboes were used to fasten two slaves together, so that the eighty-plus bilboes found on the Henrietta Marie would have restrained up to 160 ...
What are Bilboes? Bilboes were long iron bars which were attached to prisoners legs to stretch them apart and making it impossible for them to run away and escape. Because they had a sliding shackle it made it almost impossible for the prisoner to stand not alone walk. The word ‘Bilboe’ derived from Bilboa, as this country was best known ...
A more thorough explanation: Definition: Bilboes (bil-bohz) is a historical device used for punishment at sea. It consists of a board with holes that secure an offender's hands and feet. It is similar to stocks used on land. It is also an iron bar with sliding shackles for confining the ankles of prisoners, especially on ships.
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Bilboes were also found in the Molasses Reef Wreck, a Spanish wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands from very early in the 16th century, which may have been a slave ship hunting Lucayans in the Bahamas. Bilboes were used to fasten two slaves together, so that the eighty-plus bilboes found on the Henrietta Marie would have restrained up to 160 slaves.
