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Meaning of DARBIES

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dar"bies\, n. pl.
Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant]
      Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies.    --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
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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