Word Meanings - BORWE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pledge; borrow. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to BORWE)

• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• BORROW
  To take from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend. 3. To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the
• BORROWER
  One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• HEADBOROUGH; HEADBORROW
  A petty constable. (more info) 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.
• UNBORROWED
  Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.
• FRANKPLEDGE
  A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free