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Pawning

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is pawned.

    "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, more and always more horrors."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of pawn form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From pawn + -ing.

Etymology 2

From pawn + -ing.

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