put in pledge

verb

put in pledge

verb

1

Dated, Idiomatic To pawn; to give as a guarantee.

the land, which is so put in pledge, is by law, in case of non-payment at the time limited, forever dead and gone from the mortgagor;1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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