Definition of pawn

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Pawn (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

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Impignoration :: Impignoration (n.) The act of pawning or pledging; the state of being pawned.
Peon :: Peon (n.) See 2d Pawn.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously..
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Wichitas :: Wichitas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees.
Roe :: Roe (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. i.) To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do..
Pignus :: Pignus (n.) A pledge or pawn.
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..
Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1..
Gage :: Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security..
Trout :: Trout (n.) Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Pawnee :: Pawnee (n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Queen :: Queen (v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn..
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