 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pawn
noun
1: an article deposited as security
2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: {instrument},
{cat's-paw}]
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: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your
grandfather's gold watch" [syn: {soak}, {hock}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pawn \Pawn\, noun
See {Pan}, the masticatory.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pawn \Pawn\, noun [OE. paune, poun, OF. peon, poon, F. pion, LL.
pedo a foot soldier, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See {Foot}, and
cf. {Pioneer}, {Peon}.] (Chess)
A man or piece of the lowest rank.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pawn \Pawn\, noun [OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan
skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See {Pane}.]
1. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the
payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See
{Pledge}, noun, 1.
As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not
take pawns without use [i. e., interest]. --Bacon.
2. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a
promise. [R.]
Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
--Shak.
As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness.
--Donne.
3. A stake hazarded in a wager. [Poetic]
My life I never held but as a pawn
To wage against thy enemies. --Shak.
{In pawn}, {At pawn}, in the state of being pledged. ''Sweet
wife, my honor is at pawn.'' --Shak.
{Pawn ticket}, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an
article pledged.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pawn \Pawn\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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.
And pawned the last remaining piece of plate.
--Dryden.
2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to
risk; to wager; to hazard.
Pawning his honor to obtain his lust. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "pawn":
Charlie McCarthy, agent, ancilla, appliance, assurance, bail,
bishop, bond, borrow, bottomry, castle, chance, chessman, cog,
collateral, commonality, commonalty, contrivance, creature,
deposit, device, dip, dummy, dupe, earnest, earnest money, escrow,
float a loan, flunky, follower, gage, gamble, get a loan,
get on credit, go bail, go-between, guarantee, guaranty, handmaid,
handmaiden, handsel, hazard, hit one for, hit up, hock, hoi polloi,
hostage, hypothecate, impignorate, implement, inferior, instrument,
interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, jeopardize,
junior, king, knight, lever, lightweight, lower class,
lower orders, mainprise, man, masses, mechanism, mediator, medium,
midwife, minion, mortgage, negotiate a loan, organ, piece, pignus,
plaything, pledge, plight, pop, post, puppet, put in hock,
put in pawn, put up, queen, raise money, recognizance, replevin,
replevy, risk, rook, run into debt, second fiddle, secondary,
security, servant, slave, spout, stake, stooge, subaltern,
subordinate, surety, third stringer, token, token payment, tool,
touch, toy, underling, understrapper, undertaking, vadimonium,
vadium, vehicle, venture, warrant, yes-man
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