Definition of Pawn

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Definition of Pawn

Pawn

See Pan, the masticatory.

A man or piece of the lowest rank.

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

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

A stake hazarded in a wager.

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.

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

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Pawn Quotations

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
Randy Harrison

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
Louie Anderson

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
Howard Staunton

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
James F. Byrnes

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Howard Staunton

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton

Pawn Translations

pawn in Afrikaans is soldaat
pawn in Danish is soldat
pawn in Dutch is pion
pawn in French is soldat, engager, nantissement, pion
pawn in German is Bauer
pawn in Italian is contadino, deposito
pawn in Latin is pignus
pawn in Norwegian is soldat
pawn in Portuguese is penhor

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