Darbies

Who's afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn't catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping people […]

And he says, 'I'll go along quiet, Bobby,' he says, 'without the darbies,' he says.

Second watch: (Produces handcuffs) Here are the darbies.

Sentry, are you there? / Just ease this darbies at the wrist, and roll me over fair, / I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.