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Bilbo
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Spanish town Bilbao, formerly called in England "Bilboa," and famous, like Toledo, for its swordblades), in the earliest English use, a sword, especially one of superior temper. In the plural form (as in Shakespeare's phrase "methought I lay worse than the mutines in the bilboes") it meant the irons into which offenders were put on board ship.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bilbo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bilbo.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bilbo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bilbo.html. 1910.
