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BILBO (from the Spanish town Bilbao, formerly called in England " Bilboa," and famous, like Toledo, for its sword-blades)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 931 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BILBO (from the Spanish town Bilbao, formerly called in England " Bilboa," and famous, like Toledo, for its sword-blades) , 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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