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Darby

Darby \Dar"by\ (d[aum]r"b[y^]), n. A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc.

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darby

n. A specialized tool used to finish concrete slabs. A stiff, wooden or metal wedge or triangle, it is used to smooth and level the surface of wet concrete.

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Darby, MT -- U.S. town in Montana
Population (2000): 710
Housing Units (2000): 316
Land area (2000): 0.531252 sq. miles (1.375936 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.531252 sq. miles (1.375936 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19300
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 46.022030 N, 114.179603 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59829
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Darby, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 10299
Housing Units (2000): 3999
Land area (2000): 0.815793 sq. miles (2.112894 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.815793 sq. miles (2.112894 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18152
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 39.918312 N, 75.258360 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Darby

Darby may refer to:

  • Darby (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people with the name, as well as those named D'Arby

Places:

  • Darby River, Victoria, Australia
  • In United States
    • Darby, Montana, a town
    • Darby, North Carolina
    • Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio
    • Darby Township, Pickaway County, Ohio
    • Darby Township, Union County, Ohio
    • Lake Darby, Ohio
    • Darby, Pennsylvania, a borough
      • Darby (SEPTA station)
    • Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
    • Darby Creek (Pennsylvania)

Other uses:

  • Hurricane Darby (disambiguation)
  • USS Darby (DE-218), US Navy destroyer escort
  • Camp Darby, U.S. military camp in Italy
  • Darby, New Hampshire, a fictional town in a series of novels by Ernest Hebert
  • Darby Bible, a translation of the Holy Bible
  • Darby handcuffs, the most common type of Victorian handcuffs, which were single-locking and non-adjustable
Darby (name)

Darby is an English locational surname and has since become a given name. Its prefix derives from the Old Norse djúr ("deer"), and the suffix býr ("farm"/"settlement"). The oldest recorded surname dates to the period of 1160 - 1182 in Lincolnshire. Darby was a common pre-1800 alternative spelling of Derby, a city in England. People with the name or its variants include:

Usage examples of "darby".

Darby at the head, Bridget at the foot, the childher - the poor little paythriarchs - sitting bolt upright on aich side, with a bewigged and befrilled serving man standing haughty behind every chair.

Jennifer and Sari, she watched Darby, Doughboy, and Dreamboat, first-year entry.

Ardent, Trident, Darby, Doughboy, Dreamboat, Rassle, and Ribot quickly picked up the gauntlet.

Trudy, Tinsel, and Trinity were out, along with Darby, Doughboy, Dreamboat, Dana, Delight, Diddy, Ribot, Rassle, and Ruthie.

The ould king grew so excited that he laid down the pipes, took up his fiddle, came down from the throne, and standing ferninst Darby began a finer tune than the first.

Darby was a bould man, and a desperate man in his anger, as you soon will see.

The music was so bewitching that Darby, who was the gracefullest reel dancer in all Ireland, could hardly make his feet behave.

Darby that no one need ever be afeared of ghosts if he only had the courage to face thim.

Darby was sitting at his own fireside talking to Bridget and the childher.

Darby - nayther Bridget nor the childher raymembered a single thing of all that had happened to them during the day.

Darby ever saw his wife Bridget, was the misty white figure of a woman.

Ever since supper, when Bridget and the children went to bed - the better to get an early start for midnight Christmas Mass - Darby and Malachi, the yellow cat, sat opposite each other in the glow of the smouldering turf.

I say, Darby scrooged his caubeen down on his head, stuck his fingers in his two ears, and making one grand rush through the door, bolted as fast as his legs could carry him down the road toward the Sleive-na-mon Mountains.

Darby, and sit under the straw stack beside the stable to adwise with our hayro about their most important business - what was the best time for the settin' of hins and what was good to cure colic in childher, an' things like that.

Darby, his heart sizzlin' with vexation at her audaciousness, lifted in one after another the childher, and then got in himself.