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pawn ticket
Word definitions for pawn ticket in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pawn \Pawn\, n. [OF. pan pledge, assurance, skirt, piece, F. pan skirt, lappet, piece, from L. pannus. See Pane .] 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 ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pawnbroker's receipt for articles taken as security
Usage examples of pawn ticket.
It seemed a veritable betrayal of her mistress to disclose such a sordid matter as the search for a pawn ticket.
Kate, look here, I've got a pawn ticket for a flannel shirt up there in London, why don't you take it?
She thanked him and asked the captain if he would cable the shop in London and find out who had signed the pawn ticket.
Maria was a laundress and asked if it would be all right to leave some dirty laundry: two men's shirts, a little boy's shirt, a black overcoat, a black crepe bonnet with black satin strings, a pawn ticket for a gray shawl, and a little girl's white petticoat.
Lazarus sold the typewriter and the suit, left his overcoat and took back a pawn ticket, received the handgun and a box of cartridges.
He got the envelope out of the safe and tore it open and took my money and pawn ticket and slipped the shining gold coin out on his palm.
Two days later the detective informed her that the portrait of the Virgin Mary and Child had been left with Bentley's the pawnbroker, and could not be sold for at least five years, when the date on the pawn ticket would have expired.