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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



... isn't a fool I don't know who is, to go about in the very clothes he wore when he polished Whyte off, and think he won't be recognised. Melbourne ain't Paris or London, that he can afford to be so careless, and when I put the darbies on him he will be astonished. Ah, well," he went on, lighting his pipe and taking a seat on the Esplanade, "I suppose I'll have to wait here ...
— The Mystery of a Hansom Cab • Fergus Hume



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