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Manacles; handcuffs.

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  1. n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs.
  2. 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."
  3. Manacles; handcuffs. [Cant]Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies. Sir W. Scott.
  4. n. pl. Manacles; handcuffs.