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| Type | Words |
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| Type of | pledge |
pawn::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | borrowing |
pawn::noun | Spocien Dictionary
(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 rank
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | chessman, chess piece |
Examples of pawn
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Police have searched a pawn shop, four homes and two hotel rooms, de Bruin said.
From the cnn.com
The deal makes EZCorp, parent of EZPawn, the largest pawn-shop chain in Florida.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A budget of this sort would be likely to drive Britain into both slump and pawn.
From the economist.com
So moving the pawn to a6 first, to protect the pawn on b5, makes a lot of sense.
From the scienceblogs.com
Like the mission, pawn shops are not permitted in some city areas due to zoning.
From the thenewstribune.com
Among regular pawn shops, interest rates can be as high as 20 percent per month.
From the newsweek.com
The National Pawnbrokers Association says that 80% of all pawn loans are repaid.
From the forbes.com
A pawn can perform a special type of capture of an enemy pawn called en passant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
China uses N. Korea as a pawn to divert the attention of the U.S., and it works.
From the washingtontimes.com
- An article deposited as security
- Leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
- Instrument: a person used by another to gain an end
- (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 rank
- Noatak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Noatak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state in Alaska.
- The pawn (u2659u265F) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest. It historically represents infantry, or more particularly, armed peasants or pikemen. Each player begins a game of chess with eight pawns, one on each square of the rank immediately in front of the other pieces. (In algebraic notation, the white pawns start on a2, b2, c2, .....
- A pledge (also pawn) is a bailment or deposit of personal property to a creditor to secure repayment for some debt or engagement. , The term is also used to denote the property which constitutes the security.
- PAWN, formerly known as Small, is an open source programming language primarily intended as an embeddable scripting language. It is maintained by a Dutch company named CompuPhase, which released the first version in 1998.history. ...
- The Pawn is an interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls which was first published by Rainbird in 1986. It is remembered for its excellent graphics (on some versions) and the opening music available in some game versions. Also the game itself - story and parser - got mostly positive reviews. ...
