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darbies

N กุญแจมือ Handcuffs

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DARBIES

DARBIES Dar "bies, n. pl.

Defn: 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."

New American Oxford Dictionary

darbies

darbies |ˈdɑːbɪz | ▶plural noun archaic, informal handcuffs. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: allusive use of Father Darby's bands, a rigid form of agreement which put debtors in the power of moneylenders, possibly from the name of a 16th -cent. usurer.

Oxford Dictionary

darbies

darbies |ˈdɑːbɪz | ▶plural noun archaic, informal handcuffs. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: allusive use of Father Darby's bands, a rigid form of agreement which put debtors in the power of moneylenders, possibly from the name of a 16th -cent. usurer.