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Definition of Pawning
1. pawn [v] - See also: pawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawning
Literary usage of Pawning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"... not exceeding in the whole the principal sum of 10/. and the profit thereof,
and if within one year after the pawning thereof, (proof having been made ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Goods — Fraudulent pawning — Tales that Pledges Might Unfold —From Affluence
to the Potter's Field- Drink the Mainspring of the Pawnbroker's Success. ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... of Knavery — pawning Stolen Goods — Police Regulations — Selling Unredeemed
... <>f Selling Goods — Fraudulent pawning — Tales that Pledges Might Unfold ..."
4. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1898)
"... of restrictions on exercise of trades—Amending settlement law—Punishments in
workhouses—Justices may excuse payment of rate—Illegal pawning, etc., ..."
5. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"... (3) the sale or pawning of offspring ; (4) the practice of fertility charms
or rites (often only for the birth of male offspring) ; (5) suspension of ..."
6. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... 'em in the kitchen," said the page, " taking an inventory of the furniture ;
and he swears he'll have you took up for swindling, for pawning the plate. ..."
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