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- noun law One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labour of cutcherry, and the refreshment of brandy-pawnee which he was forced to take there, had their effect upon Waterloo Sedley.
Vanity Fair 2006
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I very much fear some of the young rogues are at dice and brandy-pawnee before tiffin.
The Newcomes 2006
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At last Love wakes and looks about him; finds his hero sunk into a stout old brute, intent on brandy pawnee; finds his heroine divested of her angel brightness; and in the flash of that first disenchantment, flees for ever.
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Carved in stone, across the top of the structure, were the words: pawnee county -courthouse.
The Otherworld Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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Property taken in pledge as security for a debt or an engagement, must be kept with ordinary care; in other words, the pawnee is answerable only for ordinary neglect; and if the goods should then be lost or destroyed, the pawner is still liable for the debt.
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Order being at length restored, our cheroots lighted and our iced brandy-pawnee made ready, the performance recommences.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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Bass in January; or the physical prostration caused by breaking two lumps of hard white sugar in a pawnee before a thunderstorm?
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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If the pawnee derives any profit from the use of the property, he must apply the profits, after deducting necessary expenses, toward the debt.
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Turkey, China, and other parts, and that I had come over the great pawnee, or water, to visit them ....
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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