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Pignorative :: Pignorative (a.) Pledging, pawning..

Pawn :: Pawn (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch..

Pawner :: Pawner (n.) Alt. of Pawno.

Suppedaneous :: Suppawn (n.) See Supawn.

Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) 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..

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Spat :: Spat (v. i. & t.) To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn..

Gage :: Gage (n.) To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do..

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..

Paw :: Paw (n.) The hand.

Paw :: Paw (v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely..

Aeration :: Aeration (n.) Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc..

Spawling :: Spawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spaw.

Shad :: Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species..

Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..

Empawn :: Empawn (v. t.) To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.

Smelt :: Smelt (n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste..

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