Usually means: Iron shackles used on ships.
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  1. bilboes: Merriam-Webster
  2. bilboes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bilboes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bilboes: Wordnik
  5. bilboes: Wiktionary
  6. Bilboes, bilboes: Dictionary.com
  7. Bilboes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Bilboes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Bilboes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. bilboes: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. Bilboes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. bilboes: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bilboes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bilboes)

▸ noun:  An iron bar fitting around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles.

Similar:
Oregon boot, bolt, leg irons, irons, ball and chain, manacles, basil, shackle, shackle bolt, braces, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release

Types:
fetters, shackles, handcuffs, thumbscrews, stocks, manacles, branks, more...

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Similar:
Oregon boot, bolt, leg irons, irons, ball and chain, manacles, basil, shackle, shackle bolt, braces, more...

Opposite:
freedom, liberation, release

Types:
fetters, shackles, handcuffs, thumbscrews, stocks, manacles, branks, more...



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