Peon

(n.) See Poon.

(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

(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.

(n.) See 2d Pawn.

手打:西尔维亚

• It must have been a Saturday night; the peons had been paid off, and spent part of the night in gambling away their scanty week's earnings. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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