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A bilboe (usually plural: bilboes ) is a tool of corporal punishment for men and women alike. The bilboes combine physical discomfort with social humiliation; they were popular in England and Amer...
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Bilboes, like those pictured above, were commonly found in prisons and slave ships during the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Bilboes used in the Bastille during the French Revolution are highly prized antiques.
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The Bilboes ... One of the earliest of these degrading engines of confinement for public exposure, to be used in punishment in this country, was the bilboes. Though this instrument to "punyssche transgressours ageynste ye Kinges Maiesties lawes" came from old England, it was by tradition derived from Bilboa.
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2001: The bilboes looked like handcuffs that went around the ankles. The prisoner lay flat on his back, in the dirt, his feet suspended in the air by a length of iron bar to which the bilboes were fastened.
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Experience life in the 18th century at America's largest outdoor history museum ... Alice Earle's 1896 Curious Punishments of Bygone Days showed readers what bilboes did to the legs of lawbreakers. Click to enlarge; A brank, the "gossip's bridle," effectively silenced an offender. Click to enlarge...
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Dictionary of Difficult Words - bilboes Find a word Find a difficult word here. © RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM. Advertisement starts Advertisement ends ;
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more comfort, greater productivity; ... for interactive computer games; ... useful for people with limited hand abilities;
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