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Bilbo

Bilbo \Bil"bo\, n.; pl. Bilboes.

  1. A rapier; a sword; so named from Bilbao, in Spain.
    --Shak.

  2. pl. A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships.

    Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
    --Shak. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bilbo

kind of sword noted for temper and elasticity, 1590s, from Bilbao, town in northern Spain where swords were made, in English Bilboa. The town name is Roman Bellum Vadum "beautiful ford" (over the Nervion River).

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bilbo

n. (surname: rare)

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Bilbo

Bilbo can refer to:

  • Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Bilbo, the Basque name for Bilbao, the major city in the Basque Country of northern Spain
  • Bilboes, iron restraints placed on a person's ankles or wrists
  • Bilbo (sword), a type of sword thought to be named after the Spanish city
Bilbo (sword)

The bilbo is a type of 16th century, cut-and-thrust sword or small rapier formerly popular in America. They have well- tempered and flexible blades and were very popular aboard ships, where they were used in a similar role to that of the cutlass. The term probably comes from the Basque city of Bilbao, where a significant number of them were made and exported to the New World. These swords were also sold to merchants of every European nation, including England.

Usage examples of "bilbo".

Jenks for trapping him in the bilboes and the brank, was not among them.

Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not.

The tiny figure of Ca stepped nonchalantly out into the shadow of the Sen-Danna Wall, apparently unmindful of the manacles on his wrists and i steel bilboes that held his ankles.

I, being a plain, blunt man, shall simply say for myself that for many days after being taken from the bilboes and made free of the deck, I was grievously distempered by reason of the waves, and so collapsed in the bowels that I could neither eat, stand, nor lie.

Bilbo faceva la sua apparizione fin dall’inizio, che ricalca molto l’atmosfera dell’Hobbit, ma ben presto egli passa la mano al nipote Frodo, che è l’eroe de Il Signore degli Anelli, e con questa scelta l’atmosfera cambia, s’approfondisce, diviene sempre più coinvolgente.

He sits down at the desk, fits a new relief nib to his dip pen (which he prefers to a fountain pen), unscrews the ink bottle, takes a sheet of old examination paper (which still has a candidates essay on the Battle of Maldon on the back of it), and begins to write: When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if he had.

I came in half a minute and left her, throbbing, to be finished off by Bilbo Gostaman.

He has sent me some illustrations (of the Trolls and Gollum) which despite certain merits, such as one would expect of a German, are I fear too 'Disnified' for my taste: Bilbo with a dribbling nose, and Gandalf as a figure of vulgar fun rather than the Odinic wanderer that I think of.

There would be a different expression on the face of the chief guard next day, even though Bilbo, before they went on, stole in and kindheartedly put the keys back on his belt.

He decided to introduce a new hobbit, Bilbos son - and to give him the name of a family of toy koala bears owned by his children, The Bingos.

Indeed, in one corner some of the young Tooks and Brandybucks, supposing Uncle Bilbo to have finished (since he had plainly said all that was necessary), now got up an impromptu orchestra, and began a merry dance-tune.

Bilbo Baggins had made the words, to a tune that was as old as the hills, and taught it to Frodo as they walked in the lanes of the Water-valley and talked about Adventure.

On a seat cut in the stone beside a turn in the path they came upon Gandalf and Bilbo deep in talk.

Although Bilbo often referred to Frodo as his 'favourite nephew', he was in fact his first cousin once removed (through his mother), and also his second cousin once removed (through his father).

Then Bilbo saw a sight: The lands opened wide about him, filled with the waters of the river which broke up and wandered in a hundred winding courses, or halted in marshes and pools dotted with isles on every side: but still a strong water flowed on steadily through the midst.