1866 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench 1 593 A..pawn by the plaintiff to Simpson..and a repawn of them by Simpson as a security for a loan to him by the defendant.

1911 S. W. Levine Treat. Law Pawnbroking ii. i. 57 Despite such a repawn or a transfer of possession, the original pawnor upon payment or tender of the amount due to the original pawnee is entitled to a redelivery of the pawn.

1962 P. C. Lloyd Yoruba Land Law iii. 318 A creditor must only accept repayment from the person(s) who received the loan or from the heirs; if he accepts it from any other person the transaction may be held as a repawn and hence void.

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 37 He pawned unto him the two Rubies..which being repawn'd by him and the rest made good out of his own monies, hee return'd into France [It. Gli diede in pegno i due rubini..le quali rimpegnate..ritornò in Francia].

1780 Proc. King’s Comm. Peace vi. iii. 343 I have a gold watch, which I took in pawn of the prisoner Thompson, on the 4th of May... He had pawned it before. He re-pawned it on the 4th of May, with this chain.

1810 T. Mortimer Gen. Dict. Commerce, Trade, & Manuf. at Pawn Goods are repawned for money.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiv. 182 He himself repawned Brandenburg to the Saxon Potentate.

1864 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. iii. §3 635 If a pawnee re-pawns, before any default..by the original pawnor [etc.].

1912 M. Antin Promised Land iii. 45 The best coat, and the candlesticks, too, would be repawned promptly on the first workday.

1962 D. Folliot tr. A. Castelot Turbulent City v. iv. 288 He saw an umbrella in one of the pawnshops that had been repawned for forty-seven consecutive years.

2005 Spokesman Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 28 Nov. a1 Pawnshop owners come to recognize the faces of customers, some of whom return again and again to pawn, recover and repawn items.