Puts The Hobbit in a new light, really

I promise these won't all be about words-- that's just what I ended up with a couple of days in a row.  Blame the job.  Anyway.

It turns out that "Bilbo" acutally has a meaning, to wit:

: a long bar of iron with sliding shackles and a lock at the end that is used to confine the feet of prisoners especially on shipboard

To be completely fair, that's not the only meaning-- it's also used to refer to "a finely tempered sword."  It is odd however to think of poor old Bilbo Baggins placed in irons in the hold of a ship after a poorly thought-out mutiny attempt.  Both senses of "Bilbo" trace their etymology ultimately from Bilbao, Spain, historically an important source of iron ore and ironworks in Europe.