DARBIES

  

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DARBIES

Definition: DARBIES

DARBIES

Noun plural

1. Manacles; handcuffs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DARBIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)



Specialty Definitions: DARBIES

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Darbies (2 syl.). Handcuffs. This is derived from "Darby and Joan," because originally two prisoners were linked together as Darby and Joan.
"Hark ye! Jem Clink will fetch you the darbies." - Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak.
Johnny Darbies, policemen, is a perversion' of the French gensdarmes, in conjunction with the above. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

DARBIES. Fetters. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DARBIES

Specialty definitions using "DARBIES": Dew-beaters. (references)

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Modern Translations: DARBIES

Language Translations for "DARBIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

белезници (bracelet, handcuffs, manacle, mittens, nippers, shackles). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arbiesday.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

handklovar (hand-cuffs). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kelepçe (bracelets, clamp, cleat, cuff, handcuff, handcuffs, manacle, manacles, nippers, shackle, wristlet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DARBIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abiders, braised, seabird, sidebar.

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-r-s"

-1 letter: abider, abides, aiders, ardebs, bardes, beards, biased, biders, braids, braise, breads, brides, deairs, debars, debris, disbar, irades, rabies, raised, rebids, redias, resaid, sabred, serdab.

-2 letters: abide, abris, aider, aides, aired, ardeb, arise, aside, barde, bards, bared, bares, based, baser, beads, beard, bears, bider, bides, biers, birds, birse, brads, braes, braid, bread, bride, bries, darbs, dares, deair, dears, debar, drabs, dribs, dries, ideas, irade, rabid, raids, raise, rased, reads, rebid, redia, resid, ribes, rides, sabed, saber, sabir, sabre, serai, sired.

-3 letters: abed, abri, aide, aids, airs, arbs, ares, arid, arse, bade, bads, bard, bare, bars, base, bead, bear, beds, bias, bide, bids, bier, bird, bise, brad, brae, bras, bred, brie, bris, dabs, dais, darb, dare, dear, debs, dibs, dies, dire, drab, drib, ears, eras, idea, ides, ired, ires, isba, rads, raid, rase, read, rebs, reds, reis, rias, ribs, ride, rids, rise, sabe, sade, sadi, said, sard, sari, sear, sera, side, sire.

-4 letters: abs, ads, aid, air, ais, arb, are, ars, bad, bar, bas, bed, bid, bis, bra, dab, deb, dib, die, dis, ear, eds, era, ers, ids, ire, rad, ras, reb, red, rei, res, ria, rib, rid, sab, sad, sae, sea, sei, ser, sib, sir, sri.

-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, ai, ar, as, ba, be, bi, de, ed, er, es, id, is, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-r-s"
 

+1 letter: abridges, ascribed, bawdries, bedrails, braiders, brandies, brigades, carbides, daubries, redbaits, seabirds, sidebars, tribades.

 

+2 letters: abridgers, amberoids, bedchairs, bediapers, bidarkees, bigarades, bilanders, birdcages, broadside, dauberies, desirable, desirably, diatribes, disbarred, disembark, endbrains, rabidness, sideboard, snakebird, urbanised.

 

+3 letters: abstricted, adverbials, airbrushed, backslider, bacteroids, balladries, banditries, bandoliers, banistered, barricades, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, birthdates, blandisher, boundaries, brandished, brandishes, breadlines, breadstick, bridesmaid, brigadiers, broadsided, broadsides, bromeliads, brutalised, cabdrivers, carbamides, carburised, cedarbirds, crispbread, desirables, diableries, disbarment, disembarks, drinkables, firebrands, gabardines, gaberdines, harborside, marbleised, misbranded, mislabored, obduracies, rabidities, ribaldries, rudbeckias, sideboards, snakebirds, submarined, upbraiders, waterbirds, windbreaks.

 

+4 letters: abridgments, absurdities, arabinoside, backsliders, banderillas, barricadoes, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bespreading, biodegrades, blandishers, bombardiers, brainwashed, breadfruits, breadsticks, breadthwise, bridesmaids, bridgeheads, brigandages, brigandines, budgerigars, crispbreads, deliberates, describable, disbarments, discardable, discernable, disembarked, disprovable, disturbance, drawbridges, dumbwaiters, fiberboards, fibreboards, grandbabies, husbandries, keyboardist, liberalised, linerboards, prediabetes, predicables, rabidnesses, radiolabels, shadberries, subordinate, timberheads, timberlands, transcribed, undesirable, undesirably, wattlebirds, weaverbirds, whitebeards, whiteboards.

 

+5 letters: abecedarians, abridgements, ambidextrous, arabinosides, bactericides, bardolatries, barramundies, basidiospore, birdwatchers, blackbirders, boatbuilders, brainstormed, breadwinners, chambermaids, considerable, considerably, debarkations, debaucheries, debonairness, decarbonizes, decarburizes, defibrinates, dermabrasion, descrambling, desirability, detribalizes, deverbatives, disagreeable, disagreeably, discoverable, disembarking, disembarrass, dishonorable, disreputable, disreputably, distractable, distractible, distrainable, disturbances, drumbeatings, durabilities, fiberglassed, fingerboards, forbiddances, gingerbreads, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, keyboardists, labradorites, prebendaries, prediabetics, proboscidean, restabilized, straightbred, subeditorial, subepidermal, subirrigated, subordinated, subordinates, subsidiaries, suburbanised, suburbanized, undesirables, windbreakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DARBIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 41 52 42 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-    .-.    -...    ..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000001 01010010 01000010 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#82 &#66 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 0052 0042 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38355236433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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