bilboes

Parts making up more than 80 bilboes have been found at the wreck site.

Four sets of bilboes were found at the wreck site.

They keep half of us in the bilboes while half are free.'

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

Bilboes were used to restrain slaves on slave ships.

Methought I lay Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes.

Bilboes (always plural) were iron restraints placed on a person's ankles or wrists.

The bilboes may have been for use in punishing crew members, but they were also used to restrain slaves aboard ships.

Bilboes in the forehold might be most suitable.

Bilboes were usually not placed on every slave transported, nor were they left on for all of a voyage.

'That's one of the men in the bilboes - lying in irons,' he explained.

Bilboes were made in many sizes, ranging from large ones suitable for a large man's ankles, to ones small enough to fit children.

Only the slaves that were strongest and presumably most likely to revolt or escape were kept in bilboes for all of a voyage.

Clap him into bilboes on the half-deck.'

Some artifacts were collected from the wreck, including bilboes, iron shackles that were used to restrain slaves.

As bilboes were typically used to shackle pairs of slaves together, the ones found at the wreck site could have restrained more than 160 slaves.

No manacles, no irons or bilboes' - this with a smile, although in fact the Constitution had handcuffed the captured seamen from the Java.

Bilboes consisted of a pair of "U"-shaped iron bars (shackles) with holes in the ends, through which a bolt was inserted.

(Bilboes) "The Iron Bilboes of the Henrietta Marie".

Bilboes were used to fasten two slaves together, so that the 80 plus bilboes found on the Henrietta Marie would have restrained up to 160 slaves.

HAMLET Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting, That would not let me sleep: methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.

Virolet is shown locked in the "bilboes" (shackles) with Ascanio, who turns out to be a noble and humane young man who has tried to moderate his uncle's rule, though without success.

Components forming more than 80 bilboes have been recovered from the Henrietta Marie, an English slave ship that was wrecked in the Florida Keys in 1700 after delivering slaves to Jamaica.

They were right glad that I should come down to you, and I gave them the word of a sailor that I would get you out of the bilboes if it might anyhow be done.'

Bilboes appear occasionally in literature, including Hamlet (Act V, Scene 2: "Methought I lay worse than the mutinies in the bilboes") and the journals of Captain Cook.