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Pawn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Something given or deposited as security for the payment of money borrowed; a pledge. pawn is applied only to goods, chattels or money, and not to real estate.

2. Men will not take pawns without use.

3. A pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

4. A common man at chess. [ See Peon .]

5. In pawn at pawn the state of being pledged.

6. Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn

7. One who lends money on pledge or the deposit of goods.

Pawn [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to pledge; as, she pawned the last piece of plate.

2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; as, to pawn one's word or honor that an agreement shall be fulfilled.

Pawn [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. See Pan, the masticatory.

2. A man or piece of the lowest rank.

3. Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.

4. State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

5. A stake hazarded in a wager.

Pawn [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

Pawnable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being pawned.

Pawnbroker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

Pawnbroking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The business of a pawnbroker.

Pawnbroking Encyclopedia Britannica

PAWNBROKING. See Pledge; also Usury and Usury Laws.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 439
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Pawned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pledged; given in security.

Pawned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pawnee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The person to whom a pawn is delivered as security; one that takes any thing in pawn.

2. If the pawn is laid up and the pawnee robbed, he is not answerable.

Pawnee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

Pawnees [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

Pawner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that pledges any thing as security for the payment of borrowed money.

Pawner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pawnor

Pawning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pledging, as goods; giving as security.

Pawning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pawnor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.