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A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.
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The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
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Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
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Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.
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The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
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All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
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An instance of pawning something.
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An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
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A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
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To pledge; to stake or wager.
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To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
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A gallery.
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(originally leet) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
Examples of pawns in a Sentence
It's like a chess game, and the humans are pawns to be used and destroyed, he explained.
They fail to realize to what extent they are mere pawns in the game.
The pawns only move forward until they reach the final rank, which they can turn into anything the player wants, except a pawn or king.
Place Knights within the opponent's pawns - The pawns will be unable to capture the Knight, but the Knight will be able to control multiple squares on the board.
Don't position your Pawns on the same colored square as the Bishop - This will keep the Bishop from being trapped behind the Pawns.
Avoid doubling Pawns - Lining up Pawns in front of each other leaves one Pawn defenseless if the second Pawn is captured.
Avoid Pawn moves that leave weakness - As Pawns move forward, they lose control over the square they just left.
The object of the game is to move your four pawns from the area marked Start to the area marked Home.
The pawns are the actual Decepticon and Autobot logos.
They also get eight pawns, one king and one queen.
Pawns - These pieces, which number eight of each color, form a straight line across the board in front of the other pieces.
All pieces capture by moving as outlined above except for pawns, which move one space diagonally for capture moves only.
This move can only be performed by pawns that are five spaces up from the bottom of the board.
At the beginning of the game, you have eight pawns lined up on the second row.
The only squares that pawns can attack are the two squares directly diagonal to the current square the pawn occupies.
Try to move out your center pawns to control the four central squares within ten moves.
Players start with one or two dice, and the objective is to move each of one's pawns into the center space marked as "home."
Using your personal start area, each player has four pawns.
After rolling the dice, the players use the dice amount to move their pawns around the board counter-clockwise.
Players can also "capture" an opponent's pawns, as long as that pawn is not on a safe space.
This also prevents pawns from leaving the start space.
He can also opt to use the reverse side of the dice if he has no more pawns in the start area.
On the second row of the game board each of the players places their eight pawns.
When Matilde and Manuel learn that they have been pawns of Augusta's they try to make their relationship work.
Utterly unscrupulous, and without a trace of pity, he treated men like pawns, and was content only with absolute obedience.
The pawns slowly acquired reason, and then would be able to regulate the moves themselves.
The latter's elaborate plans go on the supposition that great masses of men, women and children could be moved about over the desert as easily as pawns on a chess-board; but even the greatest military leader the world has seen would have been unable to preserve such complicated formations amid the difficulties inevitable on a desert march; and the more carefully an intelligent reader has studied the details of P's plan, the more astonished will he be to read the statement in x.
Then in 1579 the council decided to arrest Claud and his brother John (afterwards 1st marquess of Hamilton) and to punish them for their past misdeeds; but the brothers escaped to England, where Elizabeth used them as pawns in the diplomatic game, and later Claud lived for a short time in France.
We each came to realize we were pawns in something far larger and, screw the consequences; as long as this horse was saddled, we'd ride the race, wherever it took us and do our utmost to maximize its success.
Plain pawns instead of primates are the only letdown.
Avoid bringing up old conflicts while addressing the ones at hand and don't use kids as pawns or bargaining tools to resolve partner problems.
Parcheesi - A dice-based, multi-player game where players move their pawns around the board, trying to avoid capture while they return their pawns to their home position.
Use Pawns to quickly capture remaining pieces.
Those same companies where you buy blank boards also sell your accessory pieces like dice and pawns.
If you capture a pawn, you receive bonus spaces to use for your own pawns' travels.