pawns
Dictionary
noun
- A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.
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.
"Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War."
noun
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
"All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage."
- An instance of pawning something.
- An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
- A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
verb
- To pledge; to stake or wager.
- To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
Synonyms:hock
noun
- A gallery.
verb
- (originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
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