"bilboes" meaning in English

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          "ref": "c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, line 2505 (Folio 1, 1623)",
          "text": "… me thought I lay\nWorse then the mutines in the Bilboes, rashly,"
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          "text": "The bilboes looked like handcuffs that went around the ankles. The prisoner lay flat on his back, in the dirt, his feet suspended in the air by a length of iron bar to which the bilboes were fastened.",
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        "An iron bar fitting around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles."
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