Dar″bies (?), n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs.
Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.
☞ In “The Steel Glass” by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line “To binde such babes in father Derbies bands.”
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Dar″bies (?), n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs.
Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.
☞ In “The Steel Glass” by Gascoigne, printed in 1576, occurs the line “To binde such babes in father Derbies bands.”