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Webster 1913 Edition

(där′bĭz)

Noun.

pl.

Manacles; handcuffs.

[Cant]

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.”