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BILBO (from the
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Spanish
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town
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Bilbao, formerly called in
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England " Bilboa," and famous, like
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Toledo, for its
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sword-
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blades)  , in the earliest
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English use, a
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sword, especially one of
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superior
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temper . In the plural
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form (as in
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Shakespeare's phrase " methought I
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lay worse than the mutines in the bilboes ") it meant the irons into which offenders were put on
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board
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ship .

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