Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - pawn
Pawn
pawn
1. n. 1 Chess a piece of the smallest size and value. 2 a person used by others for their own purposes. Etymology: ME f. AF poun, OF peon f. med.L pedo -onis foot-soldier f. L pes pedis foot: cf. PEON 2. v. & n. --v.tr. 1 deposit an object, esp. with a pawnbroker, as security for money lent. 2 pledge or wager (one's life, honour, word, etc.). --n. 1 an object left as security for money etc. lent. 2 anything or any person left with another as security etc. Phrases and idioms in (or at) pawn (of an object etc.) held as security. Etymology: ME f. OF pan, pand, pant, pledge, security f. WG
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I. noun see: foot Date: 14th century one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank, one that can be used to further the purposes of another, II. noun Etymology: Middle English paun, from Middle French dialect (Walloon, Flanders) pan Date: 15th century 1. something delivered to or deposited with another as security for a loan, hostage, the state of being pledged, something used as a pledge ; guaranty, the act of ~ing, III. transitive verb Date: 1570 to deposit in pledge or as security especially in exchange for money, ~er also ~or noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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