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Pawn   /pɔn/   Listen
Pawn

noun
1.
An article deposited as security.
2.
A person used by another to gain an end.  Synonyms: cat's-paw, instrument.
3.
(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank.
4.
Borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan.
verb
(past & past part. pawned; pres. part. pawning)
1.
Leave as a guarantee in return for money.  Synonyms: hock, soak.



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"Pawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... fetched his bands from pawn, And all his best apparel; Brisk Ned hath bought a ruff of lawn With droppings of the barrel; And those that hardly all the year Had bread to eat or rags to wear Will have both clothes and dainty fare, And all ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various
... man was Thomas Esmond. He had a fancy to my Lord Castlewood's savings, the amount of which rumor had very much exaggerated. Madame Isabel was said to have Royal jewels of great value; whereas poor Tom Esmond's last coat but one was in pawn. ...
— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray
... we must accept. Milton no doubt was attracted by the dramatic superiority of this version, which makes the Creation of Man a minor incident in the great war, so that the human race comes, a mere token and pawn— ...
— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
... the ornament with care, and slightly colouring,—for in fact the jewels had been a present from Philip the Good to the Duke of Bedford, and the exigencies of the civil wars had led, some time since, first to their mortgage, or rather pawn, and then ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... latter case it is liable to be taken en passant, with a pawn that could have taken it had it been played only ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous


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