PAWN
Pawn
The pawn is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest. It historically represents infantry, or more particularly, armed peasants or pikemen. Each player begins a game of chess with eight pawns, one on each square of the rank immediately in front of the other pieces.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Pawn (chess)
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pawn
Noun
- The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
- Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.
- Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.
Noun (etymology 2)
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
- An instance of pawning something.
- An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
- A pawn shop, pawnbroker.
Noun (etymology 3)
Verb
- To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.
Verb (etymology 2)
- To pledge; to stake or wager.
- To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
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