What is 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." called?
darbies — 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.". (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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