put in pledge

put in pledge (third-person singular simple present puts in pledge, present participle putting in pledge, simple past and past participle put in pledge)

1. (transitive, idiomatic, dated) To pawn; to give as a guarantee.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     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;

• “pledge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.