Dar'bies noun plural 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 .' Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/6