Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"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


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com