noun. Something given as security for a loan; a pledge or guaranty.

noun. The condition of being held as a pledge against the payment of a loan.

noun. A person serving as security; a hostage.

noun. The act of pawning.

transitive verb. To give or deposit (personal property) as security for the payment of money borrowed.

transitive verb. To risk; hazard.

phrasal verb. To dispose or get rid of deceptively.

noun. A chess piece of lowest value that may move forward one square at a time or two squares in the first move, capture other pieces only on a one-space diagonal forward move, and be promoted to any piece other than a king upon reaching the eighth rank.

noun. A person or an entity used to further the purposes of another.

noun. Something given or deposited as security, as for money borrowed; security; pledge.

noun. A pledge or promise.

noun. A gage; a challenge.

noun. The condition of being pledged or held as security, as for the payment of a debt or the fulfilment of a promise, etc.: as, to be in pawn or at pawn.

noun. A pawnshop; a pawnbroker's establishment.

noun. At pawn, in pawn, pledged; hence, laid away; not available.

To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; pledge.

To pledge for the fulfilment of a promise.

noun. A piece of the lowest rank and value at chess. See chess.

noun. Marked pawn. See marked.

noun. A peacock; in heraldry, a peacock used as a bearing.

noun. Mast, or similar food for animals. Also spelled pawne.

To put up as collateral: hypothecate, as stock for a loan.

noun. A gallery.

noun. Same as pan.

transitive verb. To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge.

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

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

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

noun. A stake hazarded in a wager.

noun. in the state of being pledged.

noun. undefined

noun. a shop where a pawnbroker does business.

noun. a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged.

noun. See pan, the masticatory.

noun. A man or piece of the lowest rank.

noun. 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.

noun. Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.

verb. To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.

noun. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.

noun. An instance of pawning something.

noun. An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.

noun. A pawn shop, pawnbroker.

verb. To pledge; to stake or wager.

verb. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.

noun. an article deposited as security

noun. a person used by another to gain an end

noun. (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

verb. leave as a guarantee in return for money

noun. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan