Pawning meaning

Then the pope resorted to pawning palace furniture, table plate, jewels, even statues of the apostles.

The efforts of the administration to better the condition of the natives without undue interference with customary law met with encouraging results, and the submission of the Aros to the government in 1902 brought to an end the system of tribal warfare for the purpose of making slaves, while the enforcement of a proclamation of 1901 prohibiting the buying, pawning or selling of slaves had a salutary effect.

Pawning, Las Vegas style, is the catch behind The History Channel reality show, Pawn Stars.