Is “Pawns” a Scrabble word?

1. 1.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.

1. 1.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.

2. 2.Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.

   “Though a pawn of the gods, her departure is the precipitating cause of the Trojan War.”

1. 1.The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.

   “All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.”

2. 2.An instance of pawning something.

3. 3.An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.

1. 1.To pledge; to stake or wager.

2. 2.To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.

Synonyms: hock