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Darbies   Listen
noun
Darbies  n. pl.  Manacles; handcuffs. (Cant) "Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies." Note: In "The Steel Glass" by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line "To binde such babes in father Derbies bands."





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"Darbies" Quotes from Famous Books



... business suit on under the burglar make-up. It didn't take him two minutes to work the shine darbies over his hands. He then peeled off the ulster and the tuppeny trousers, and throwing these and the Svengalis over the fence, he was home again ...
— Back to the Woods • Hugh McHugh


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