| 释义 |
pawnee, n.1|pɔːˈniː|
[f. pawn v. + -ee.]
The person with whom something is deposited as a pawn or pledge. (Correlative to pawner.)
1683–5tr. Croke's Rep., Jac. 245 marg., Tender of the money to the executrix of a pawnee, and her refusal to restore the goods, revests them in the owner. 1745–1875 [see pawner]. 1875Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 369 The pawnee could not become the purchaser. |