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▪ I. bilbo1|ˈbɪlbəʊ|
Forms: 6 bilboa, 6–7 bilboe, -bowe, 7 bilbow, 6– bilbo.
[App. (as stated by Blount in 1656) from Bilbao in Spain, long called in Eng. Bilboa. ‘Bilbow blades’ were, according to a marginal note to Drayton Agincourt (1631) p. 10, ‘blades accounted of the best temper.’ Cf. Damascus blade, Toledo blade. The swords of Bilbao, according to Moll's Geogr. 1701, ‘are famous over all Europe.’]
1. A sword noted for the temper and elasticity of its blade. Now only Hist.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 112 Compass'd like a good Bilbo in the circumference of a Pecke, hilt to point. 1603Drayton Odes xvii. 81 Downe their Bowes they threw And forth their Bilbowes drew. 1625Markham Souldiers Accid. 2 Sharpe and broad Swords (of which the Turkie or Bilboe are best). 1826Scott Woodst. iii, My tough old Knight and you were at drawn bilbo. 1860J. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xv. 174 We shall come to bilbo and buff before long.
b. Often used as the proper name of a sword personified; esp. that of a bully or swash-buckler.
1676Shadwell Libertine i. Wks. 1720 II. 106 Stand, you dog!.. I'll put Bilbo in your guts. 1749U. ap Rhys Spain (1760) 20 Bilbo is an humourous term for a Bully's Sword.
c. Phrase. bilbo's the word.
1687Congreve Old Bach. iii. vii, Bilbo's the word and slaughter will ensue. 1713Guardian No. 145 Bilbo is the word, remember that and tremble. 1859Thackeray Virgin. xxxvii. 294.
2. transf. ? One who bears a bilbo. (Doubtful.)
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 165, I combat challenge of this Latine Bilboe. 1690Crowne Eng. Frier v. 41 This bilboe has shew'd more brains then our Statesmen do.
3. attrib. and Comb., as bilbo-blade, bilbo-man, bilbo-mettle, bilbo-smith; bilbo-lord, a bully, swash-buckler.
1592Greene Disput. Wks. (Grosart) X. 236 Let them doe what they dare with their *bilbowe blades.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Bilbo blade from Bilboa..in Spain where the best blades are made.
1621Fletcher Wild-G. Chase iii. i, That this *bilbo-lord shall reap that maidenhead That was my due.
1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No King v. 59 You are much bound to your *Bil-bow-men.
1632B. Jonson in Brome North. Lasse Pref. Verses, An honest *Bilbo-Smith would make good blades.
▪ II. bilbo2
Pl. bilboes |ˈbɪlbəʊz|. Also 6 bilbows, 7 bilbowes, bylboes, 8 (comb.) bilboo-.
[Of uncertain derivation. It is usually, like the prec., referred to Bilbao, on the alleged ground that many of these instruments were manufactured there, and shipped on board the Spanish Armada, for the confinement of English prisoners expected to be made; but the word occurs in English many years before 1588.]
A long iron bar, furnished with sliding shackles to confine the ankles of prisoners, and a lock by which to fix one end of the bar to the floor or ground.
1557in Hakluyt Voy. I. 295, I was also conueyed to their lodgings..where I saw a pair of bilbowes. 1591J. Hortop Narr. in Arb. Garner V. 316 Whom he presently commanded to be set in the bilbows. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 6 Me thought I lay Worse then the mutines in the Bilboes. 1723S. Centlivre Basset-Table i. i. 205 For every fault that she commits, he'll condemn her to the Bilboes. 1879Sala in Daily Tel. 26 June, The..prisoner kneeling to show how..the bilboes and the neckstocks were put on him.
b. attrib.
1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1597 Carrying with him the shackle of the bilboo-bolt that had been put about his leg. |