"darky" meaning in English

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        "(countable) Alternative spelling of darkey (“dark lantern”)."
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          "text": "[…] at Darky they buss them out of the Ground, that is, at Night they steal the Horses, then pike thirty or forty Straches that Darky, that is go thirty or forty Miles that Night, towards the next Gaff to fence them, […]",
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