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"pawn your grandfather's gold watch"verbleave as a guarantee in return for money
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nouna person used by another to gain an end
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nounan article deposited as securitytype of:
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nounborrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loantype of:
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noun(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th ranktype of:
Definition that contains pawn
- queen promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
- salmon any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- promote change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
- spat spawn
- spawn lay spawn
- roe the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster
- shad herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
- shad bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of Atlantic coast
- striper marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
- sockeye small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning