pawnee, n.1
(pɔːˈniː)
[f. pawn v. + -ee.]
The person with whom something is deposited as a pawn or pledge. (Correlative to pawner.)
| 1683–5 tr. Croke's Rep., Jac. 245 marg., Tender of the money to the executrix of a pawnee, and her refusal to restore the goods, revests them in the owner. 1745–1875 [see pawner]. 1875 Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 369 The pawnee could not become the purchaser. |