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peyon [pí.yun.] : manual laborer (n.); pawn (n.)
[ Etymology: Spanish: peón: pawn ]

Derivatives of peyon


Glosses:
manual laborer
n. (person)1. jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborersomeone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor.
~ agricultural laborer, agricultural labourera person who tills the soil for a living.
~ braceroa Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II.
~ cleanersomeone whose occupation is cleaning.
~ day laborer, day labourera laborer who works by the day; for daily wages.
~ diggera laborer who digs.
~ dishwashersomeone who washes dishes.
~ navvy, peon, drudge, galley slavea laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
~ gandy dancera laborer in a railroad maintenance gang.
~ gravediggera person who earns a living by digging graves.
~ hewera person who hews.
~ hired hand, hired man, handa hired laborer on a farm or ranch.; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"
~ hod carrier, hodmana laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers.
~ gipsy, gypsy, itineranta laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment.; "itinerant traders"
~ faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumbermana person who fells trees.
~ miner, mineworkerlaborer who works in a mine.
~ mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinnera worker who drives mules.
~ platelayer, tracklayera workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks.
~ portera person employed to carry luggage and supplies.
~ rail-splitter, splittera laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences.
~ sawyerone who is employed to saw wood.
~ section handa laborer assigned to a section gang.
~ sprayera worker who applies spray to a surface.
~ stackera laborer who builds up a stack or pile.
~ steeplejacksomeone who builds or maintains very tall structures.
~ dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedorea laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.
~ fireman, stokera laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship).
~ woodcuttercuts down trees and chops wood as a job.
~ working man, working person, workingman, workmanan employee who performs manual or industrial labor.
~ wreckersomeone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job.
~ yardmana laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns).
pawn
n. (possession)1. pawnan article deposited as security.
~ pledgea deposit of personal property as security for a debt.; "his saxophone was in pledge"
n. (person)2. cat's-paw, instrument, pawna person used by another to gain an end.
~ assistant, helper, help, supportera person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"
n. (artifact)3. pawn(chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank.
~ chess game, chessa board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king.
~ chess piece, chessmanany of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
n. (act)4. pawnborrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan.
~ borrowingobtaining funds from a lender.
v. (possession)5. hock, pawn, soakleave as a guarantee in return for money.; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilismtransactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services).
~ consign, chargegive over to another for care or safekeeping.; "consign your baggage"