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noun
Peon  n.  
1.
A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. (India)
2.
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.
3.
(Chess) See 2d Pawn.





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"Peon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the mud fort already mentioned that the travellers received the first accounts of the progress of the Begum and her party, by a Peon (or foot-soldier) who had been in their company, but was now on his return to the coast. They had travelled, he said, with great speed, until they ascended the Ghauts, where they were joined by a party of the Begum's own forces; and he and others, ...
— The Surgeon's Daughter • Sir Walter Scott
... great relief, "but this mescal is something quite different. The Mexican drink mescal is made from the maguey-plant and is a frightfully horrid thing that sends the peon out of his senses and makes him violent. Mescal as I mean it is a little shrub, a god, a ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... experience of a Georgia peon "seems to me very doubtful. I am personally acquainted with the story of Dade's stockade, and have passed within a few miles of it, and I do not believe in the least that there is now, or has been in the past thirty years, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various
... I have not seen him myself, and should not know him if I saw him, but from descriptions I should think it must be he. I have a poor fellow—a peon—lying here just now, who has been robbed and nearly murdered by him. Come, he is in the next room; you can ...
— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne
... peon lounged before the door. Yes; Don Diego was there, but as he had arrived from Santa Clara only last night and was going to Colonel Ramirez that afternoon, he was engaged. Unless the business was important—but the cool, determined ...
— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte


Words linked to "Peon" :   labourer, manual laborer, jack, laborer


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