Pawn most often refers to: *

Pawn (chess) The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one vacant square directly forward, it may move two vacant squares directly forward on its first move, and it may capture one square diagonally forward. E ...

, the weakest and most numerous piece in the game *

Pawnbroker A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been ''pawned'' to the broker are themselves called ''pledges'' or ...

or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral Pawn may also refer to:

Places

Pawn, Oregon Pawn was a historic unincorporated community in Lane County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lay at the headwaters of the North Fork Siuslaw River, where Sam Creek and West Branch join to form the river in the Siuslaw National Forest of the Cent ...

, an historic forest community *

Pawn River This is a list of rivers in Myanmar (also known as Burma). This list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Indian Ocean * Nāf River * Kaladan River * Lemro Riv ...

, Burma *

Noatak Airport Noatak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Noatak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state in Alaska. Facilities Noatak Airport has one ...

, International Civil Aviation Organization code PAWN

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Pawn'' (2013 film), an American film * ''The Pawn'' (film), a 1978 French film * ''Pawn'' (2020 film), a South Korean film * ''

The Pawn ''The Pawn'' is an interactive fiction game for the Sinclair QL written by Rob Steggles of Magnetic Scrolls and published by Sinclair Research in 1985. In 1986, graphics were added and the game was released for additional home computers by Rainb ...

'', a 1980s text adventure * "Pawns", a song on the 2017 Paloma Faith album '' The Architect''

Other uses

Pawnship Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation. Where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, the pe ...

, debt bondage slavery * Pawn, another name for a

pledge Pledge may refer to: Promises * a solemn promise * Abstinence pledge, a commitment to practice abstinence, usually teetotalism or chastity * The Pledge (New Hampshire), a promise about taxes by New Hampshire politicians * Pledge of Allegianc ...

in certain jurisdictions

People with the surname

Doris Pawn Doris Pawn (born Doris Alice Pahn; December 29, 1894 – March 30, 1988) was an American silent era film actress. Early life Pahn was born on December 29, 1894, to Louise Marie Hasse (1867–1925) and Martin Pahn. She had three sister ...

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

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Other uses

People with the surname

See also