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Webster 1828 Edition

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Pledging, as goods; giving as security.

pawning

pawning ‎(plural pawnings)

The act by which something is pawned.
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
  Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless; she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her — that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets […]