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verb (used with object)
1.
to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
2.
to pledge; stake; risk: to pawn one's life.
noun
3.
the state of being deposited or held as security, especially with or by a pawnbroker: jewels in pawn.
4.
something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed.
5.
a person serving as security; hostage.
6.
the act of pawning.
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Pawnor
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Origin:
1490–1500; (noun) < Middle French pan; Old French pan(d), pant, apparently < West Germanic; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; (v.) derivative of the noun
1490–1500; (noun) < Middle French pan; Old French pan(d), pant, apparently < West Germanic; compare Old Frisian pand, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch pant, German Pfand; (v.) derivative of the noun
Related forms
pawn·a·ble, adjective
un·pawned, adjective
Synonyms
4. pledge.
4. pledge.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
pawn
"lowly chess piece," 1369, from Anglo-Fr. poun, O.Fr. peon, earlier pehon, from M.L. pedonem "foot soldier," from L.L. pedonem (nom. pedo) "one going on foot," from L. pes (gen. pedis) "foot" (see foot). The chess sense was in O.Fr. by 13c. Fig. use, of persons, is from 1589.
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