Definition of pledge

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Pledge (n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage..

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Hand :: Hand (v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
Wed :: Wed (n.) A pledge; a pawn.
Ironclad :: Ironclad (a.) Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge..
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
Pledgery :: Pledgery (n.) A pledging; suretyship.
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..
Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety..
Desponsory :: Desponsory (n.) A written pledge of marriage.
Teetotaler :: Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Sponson :: Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.
Pawnbroker :: Pawnbroker (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Sindon :: Sindon (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
Gage :: Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage..
Gisle :: Gisle (n.) A pledge.
Pledgeor :: Pledgeor (n.) Alt. of Pledgo.
Handfast :: Handfast (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage..
Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
Impignorate :: Impignorate (v. t.) To pledge or pawn.
Propine :: Propine (n.) A pledge.
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