1. pawn - Noun
2. pawn - Verb
See Pan, the masticatory.
A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
A stake hazarded in a wager.
To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHumanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. E. E. Cummings
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. Edmund Burke
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man. Howard Staunton
At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same bag. English Proverb
At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box. Italian Proverb
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian Proverb