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Pawn   /pɔn/   Listen
noun
Pawn  n.  See Pan, the masticatory.


Pawn  n.  (Chess) A man or piece of the lowest rank.


Pawn  n.  
1.
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. "As for mortgaging or pawning,... men will not take pawns without use (i. e., interest)."
2.
State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. (R.) "Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown." "As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness."
3.
A stake hazarded in a wager. (Poetic) "My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies."
In pawn, At pawn, in the state of being pledged. "Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn."
Pawn shop, a shop where a pawnbroker does business.
Pawn ticket, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged.


verb
Pawn  v. t.  (past & past part. pawned; pres. part. pawning)  
1.
To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
Synonyms: hock (colloq). "And pawned the last remaining piece of plate."
2.
To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard. "Pawning his honor to obtain his lust."





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"Pawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... Norman noble, thou pawn-broking slave," answered Front-de-Boeuf; "the faith of a Norman nobleman, more pure than the gold and silver of thee and all ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... seemed to me a shame for a man like you to be a pawn in a game all of his life while he might be playing the ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... never very placid, was now severely tried, both by gout and by calumny. The courtiers had adopted a mode of warfare, which was soon turned with far more formidable effect against themselves. Half the inhabitants of the Grub Street garrets paid their milk scores, and got their shirts out of pawn, by abusing Pitt. His German war, his subsidies, his pension, his wife's peerage, were shin of beef and gin, blankets and baskets of small coal, to the starving poetasters of the Fleet. Even in the House of Commons, he was, on one occasion during this session, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... regarded more in the light of a business transaction than it is with us, and less as one which it is necessary to conceal from the eyes of the world at large. Nothing is more common than for the owner of a large wardrobe of furs to pawn them one and all at the beginning of summer and to leave them there until the beginning of the next winter. The pawnbrokers in their own interest take the greatest care of all pledges, which, if not redeemed, will become their own property, though they repudiate all claims for damage done ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles
... clouded. She had put forward a little pawn of compliment toward us, as towards a good point, perhaps, for tempting a break in the game. And behold! Rosamond's knight only leaped right over it, facing honestly ...
— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney


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