Crossword-Solution: PAWN 4 letters, 269 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Pawn	n.	See Pan, the masticatory.
Pawn	n.	A man or piece of the lowest rank.
Pawn	n.	Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
Pawn	n.	State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
Pawn	n.	A stake hazarded in a wager.
Pawn	v. t.	To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
Pawn	v. t.	To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

We have 269 clues for the answer “PAWN”

Clue	Answers
"Foot soldier" on a chessboard	1 answer
"___ Stars" (long-running show in which experts appraise and buy antiques)	1 answer
Bishop protector, sometimes	1 answer
Board member up for promotion?	1 answer
Board sacrifice, often	1 answer
Borrow cash against	1 answer
Borrow some money against	1 answer
Castle protector, maybe	1 answer
Chess "soldier"	1 answer
Chess piece captured "en passant"	1 answer
Chess piece not allowed to move backward	1 answer
Chess piece that may be promoted	1 answer
Chess piece that's commonly sacrificed	1 answer
Chess piece that's often the first to be played	1 answer
Chess piece usually moved first	1 answer
Chess piece worth one point	1 answer
Chess sacrifice, often	1 answer
Chessboard cannon fodder, often	1 answer
Chessman that can be promoted	1 answer
Chessman that may be promoted	1 answer
Commonly sacrificed chess piece	1 answer
Deposit as security for a loan	1 answer
Diagonal capturer	1 answer
Director's opposite	1 answer
Element of an English Opening in chess	1 answer
En passant capture	1 answer
En passant piece	1 answer
En-passant capture	1 answer
Exchange for cash and a ticket	1 answer
Expendable board member?	1 answer
Expendable chess piece	1 answer
Expendable one	1 answer
Exploited one	1 answer
Fianchettoed bishop protector	1 answer
Figure on the board who might get a promotion?	1 answer
First to move, usually	1 answer
First-row chessman	1 answer
Fischer man?	1 answer
Forward-moving game piece	1 answer
Frequent chess sacrifice	1 answer
Front-rank piece	1 answer
Front-row chess piece	1 answer
Future knight, maybe	1 answer
Future queen, maybe	1 answer
Future queen, perhaps	1 answer
Get some quick money for, say	1 answer
Give as security, in a way	1 answer
He might become a queen	1 answer
He stands before the queen?	1 answer
He's expendable and exploitable	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EEATR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PAWN (5)

Fritz made him a new pair of trousers and would have made him an overcoat but for the fact that overcoats were so easy to pawn.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

But for all that, if I could get away from this cursed place, I would keep the girl in sight--hang me if I would n’t! I ‘d cut the races--dash me if I would n’t! But I ‘m in pawn, if you know what that means.

Confidence Henry James 2006

More minutes tick away; she takes his pawn and has the advantage, showing her sense of it rather prominently.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

When a man’s got stolen goods to pawn he doesn’t take them to the police-station.” “Stolen?” Flamel echoed.

The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1995

And still the asses would pawn off on us this intolerable tyranny of their own wickedness as a willing act and example of Christendom--and thereby acquit themselves! But this is getting too long.

An Open Letter on Translating Gary Mann 2008

Quotes with PAWN (3)

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had onl…

Terry Goodkind Wizard's First Rule

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

Italian proverb

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 278 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).