pawn
21pawn — {{11}}pawn (n.1) something left as security, late 15c. (mid 12c. as Anglo Latin pandum), from O.Fr. pan, pant pledge, security, also booty, plunder, perhaps from Frankish or some other Germanic source (Cf. O.H.G. pfant, Ger. Pfand, M.Du. pant,… …
22pawn — I [[t]pɔn[/t]] v. t. 1) to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker 2) to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one s life[/ex] 3) the state of being pawned: jewels in pawn[/ex] 4) something that is pawned 5) a person serving as… …
23pawn — I. /pɔn / (say pawn) verb (t) 1. to deposit as security, as for money borrowed: to pawn a watch. 2. to pledge or stake: I pawn my honour. –noun 3. state of being deposited or held as security: jewels in pawn. 4. something given or deposited as… …
24pawn — pawn1 pawnable, adj. pawner /paw neuhr/, pawnor /paw neuhr, nawr/, n. /pawn/, v.t. 1. to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, esp. with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch. 2. to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one s life …
25pawn — 1. noun /pɔːn,pɔn,pɑn/ a) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant. Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the… …
26pawn — [[t]pɔ͟ːn[/t]] pawns, pawning, pawned 1) VERB If you pawn something that you own, you leave it with a pawnbroker, who gives you money for it and who can sell it if you do not pay back the money before a certain time. [V n] He is contemplating… …
27pawn — English has two words pawn. The older, ‘chess piece’ [14], means etymologically ‘footsoldier’. It comes via Anglo Norman poun from medieval Latin pedō ‘infantryman’, a derivative of Latin pēs ‘foot’ (to which English foot is related). The foot… …
28pawn — /pɔ:n/ noun ♦ to put something in pawn to leave a valuable object with someone in exchange for a loan which has to be repaid if you want to take back the object ♦ to take something out of pawn to repay the loan and so get back the object which… …
29pawn — English has two words pawn. The older, ‘chess piece’ [14], means etymologically ‘footsoldier’. It comes via Anglo Norman poun from medieval Latin pedō ‘infantryman’, a derivative of Latin pēs ‘foot’ (to which English foot is related). The foot… …
30pawn — n. a helpless pawn * * * [pɔːn] a helpless pawn …
