2. Verb. (third-person singular of pawn) ¹
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Definition of Pawns
1. pawn [v] - See also: pawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawns
Literary usage of Pawns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples by François Danican Philidor, William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824)
"When your pawns are separated from the centre, endeavour to increase the number
of those on the strongest side ; and if you have two pawns in the centre, ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story, James Schouler (1878)
"Distinction between pawns and Liens in regard to sale. 312, 313. ... Sale of
pawns, when composed of Different Articles. 315. ..."
3. Slavery as an Industrial System: Ethnological Researches by Herman Jeremias Nieboer (1900)
"pawns or debtor-slaves. In the course of our investigation it will be shown, that
among some ... Sometimes such persons are ordinary slaves ; but (pawns or ..."
4. The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the by Howard Staunton, R. F. Green (1890)
"KING AGAINST THREE PASSED pawns. WE now come to a species of termination which
has latterly occupied very much of the attention of the chess world, viz., ..."
5. The Art of Chess by James Mason, Leopold Hoffer (1905)
"pawns—Varying the move—pawns opposed ; two against one—Kings and fixed pawns —
Kings and ... Bishops and pawns —' Knights and pawns—The same in opposition . ..."
6. The Chess-player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds, and a by Howard Staunton (1849)
"If you can give your friend the Rook and Knight, you will find you can hardly
give up the Queen under three extra pawns in return. "Place the extra pawns on ..."
7. Algebra: An Elementary Text-book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1893)
"A white rook and two black pawns are placed at random on a chess-board in any of
the positions which they might occupy in an actual game. ..."
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