pawn

Meanings

Noun

• The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
• Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
• The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
• An instance of pawning something.
• An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
• A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
• Alternative of paan
• A gallery.

Verb

• To pledge; to stake or wager.
• To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
• Alternative of pwn

Related

Similar words

• hock

Origin

• Image:Chess pawn 0968.jpg|thumb|A black pawn in chess
• From Middle English pown, pawn, from Anglo-Norman paun, poun ( = Old French poon, paon, peon), from Late Latin pedo ("footsoldier"), from Latin pes ("foot"). peon.
• From Middle French pan ("pledge, security"), apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).