pawnticket

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English

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Etymology

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From pawn +‎ ticket.

Noun

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pawnticket (plural pawntickets)

  1. A ticket issued by a pawnbroker to the customer, by which they can later redeem the pawned article.
    • 1911, Samuel Walter Levine, A Treatise on the Law of Pawnbroking as Governed by the Principles of the Common Law, page 63:
      New York directs that the holder of a pawnticket shall be the person entitled to redeem the pledge, and the pawnbroker shall deliver the pawned article to the person duly presenting the pawnticket.
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