(n.) One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheyenne-Arapaho, Comanche and Kiowa areas (located in the western++ part of the state) have higher alcohol-related deaths than Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole and Pawnee areas (located in eastern Oklahoma).
(2) At one point in the film Swank and Jones' characters are confronted by a Pawnee raiding party and have a horse stolen, but Jones rejected any suggestion that he had "stereotyped" Native Americans in his film.
(3) Gary Duncan - half Pawnee, quarter Cherokee - was guitarist for arguably the most pioneering band of them all, Quicksilver Messenger Service.
(4) The actors were all Native Americans of Pueblo descent … I was proud they were looked like Pawnees, and not ashamed of the fact they were considered by our characters potentially to be homicidal.