pawning

English

Etymology

From pawn +‎ -ing.

Noun

pawning (plural pawnings)

1. The act by which something is pawned.
   • 1915, Ford Madox Ford, chapter V, in The Good Soldier, London: Penguin Books, published 1982, →ISBN, →OCLC, part I, page 63:

     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

pawning

1. present participle and gerund of pawn