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Pawn ticket   /pɔn tˈɪkət/   Listen
noun
Pawn  n.  
1.
Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. "As for mortgaging or pawning,... men will not take pawns without use (i. e., interest)."
2.
State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise. (R.) "Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown." "As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness."
3.
A stake hazarded in a wager. (Poetic) "My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies."
In pawn, At pawn, in the state of being pledged. "Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn."
Pawn shop, a shop where a pawnbroker does business.
Pawn ticket, a receipt given by the pawnbroker for an article pledged.





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"Pawn ticket" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be absolute proof of your dishonesty. Will you explain how, otherwise, this pawn ticket ...
— Andy Grant's Pluck • Horatio Alger
... gnaws more potently than conscience," said Pike, with a grandiloquent gesture. "I had sought alms and been refused at that mill. Lurking about I saw you leave the summer-house and spied the gold pen. I can give you a pawn ticket for that," said Mr. Pike sadly. "But I saw, too, the value of your scenario and notes. Desperately I had determined to try to enter this field of moving pictures. It is a terrible come down, Miss Fielding, for an ...
— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson


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