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[Prob. a var. of panel.] A gallery. This house is fiue and fifty paces in length, and hath three pawnes or walks in it, and forty great pillars gilded, which stand betweene the walks. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 261. Jerman's Exchange [London, 1837] was a quadrangular building, with a clock-tower of timber on the Corn hill side. It had an inner cloister, and a pawn , or gallery, above for the sale of fancy goods. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 35. pawn6 (pân), n. Same as pan4 .