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Bilboes are an apparatus for confining the feet of offenders, especially on board ships where they were used to confine mutineers, consisting of a long bar of iron with shackles sliding on it and a lock at one end to stop them from sliding off. From the use of bilboes evolved the term 'put in irons'. Bilboes are so named after the town in Spain, Bilbao, where they were first made.
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The Curtiss Warhawk P-40D was a fighter-bomber development of the P-40 fitted with a new engine which allowed the fuselage to be shortened by six inches. The synchronised fuselage machine-guns were abandoned and shackles under the fuselage fitted to carry a fuel tank or 300-500 lb bomb. Racks under the outer wings were fitted to carry six 20 lb bombs.
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Block and tackle is London Cockney rhyming slang for handcuffs (shackles).
Block and tackle was old London Cockney rhyming slang for fetters (shackles).
Block and tackle was old Cockney slang for a watch and chain.
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Darbies is British slang for handcuffs.
Darbies is British slang for hands.
Darbies is British slang for fingerprints.
Darbies was old slang for fetters, shackles.
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Shackles is American tramp slang for soup, broth or stew.
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