PEON

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

See Poon.

2.
n.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

3.
n.

A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

4.
n.

See 2d Pawn.


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