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Pawn

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Pawn may refer to:

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Other uses

  • Pawnbroker or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral
  • Pawnship, debt bondage slavery
  • Pawn, another name for a pledge in certain jurisdictions

People with the surname

  • Doris Pawn (1894–1988), an American actress of the silent film era

The chess piece

  • A chess piece is a piece which can move diagonally. It is worth 1 point and each player gets 8 of them at the start of the game. For white, they will be on the 2nd row and for black, it will be on the 7th row.

See also