Definitions for bilboes

bilboes bil·bo

Spelling: [bil-boh]
IPA: /ˈbɪl boʊ/

Bilboes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in bilboes (bbeilos).

Definitions for bilboes

noun

  1. a finely tempered sword.

Origin of bilboes

1585-95; short for Bilboa blade sword made in Bilboa (variant of Bilbao)

Examples for bilboes

They'll lie safely in the bilboes, even if we do not run them up to the yard-arm.

Here, Nicholls, this man is your prisoner; get the bilboes and clap them on him.

An they do not confess, they may be set in the bilboes and whipped.

They took him and told him he should go to the bilboes, and then be hanged.

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

Then for — but O these bilboes on our ankles, how mercilessly they grip!

Up with the prisoner, and let us get him safely into the bilboes.'

One of the earliest of these instruments of punishment was the bilboes.

For which Mr. Rowe carid hym abord and put hym in the bilboes.

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

Word Value for bilboes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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