Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Darbies \Dar"bies\, n. pl.
   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.''