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Plasterers' floats; trowels
Answer for the clue "Plasterers' floats; trowels ", 7 letters:
darbies
Word definitions for darbies in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (darby English) 2 (context UK slang English) handcuffs
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Darbies \Dar"bies\ (d[aum]r"b[i^]z), 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.'' ...
Usage examples of darbies.
Watson, that this gentleman is just visiting here upon some other business entirely, when I just happen to bring in these darbies, and he just happens to be the man who made 'em-well, no policeman worth his badge is going to accept that sort of thing as a coincidence.
I'll clap the darbies on that gentleman before you can say Jack Robinson!