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Peon   Listen
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



... and a barefooted "peon" servant took charge of his horse. It was not at all the kind of dismounting he had performed at the camp in the woods on the road from Vera Cruz. Neither did he now have any machete dangling from his belt, to entangle himself with, and there were no pistol holsters in front of the saddle. He ...
— Ahead of the Army • W. O. Stoddard
 
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... his place, Prone and sprawling on his face, More like brute than any man Alive or dead, By his great pump out of gear, Lay the peon engineer, Waking only just to hear, Overhead, Angry tones that called his name, Oaths and cries of bitter blame,— Woke to hear all this, and, ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
 
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... the road, where he saw a crippled peon carrying a tin bucket toward the river. This peon was a half-witted Indian who lived in a shack and did odd jobs for the Mexicans. Duane ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
 
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Words linked to "Peon" :   manual laborer, laborer, galley slave, jack, labourer, navvy, drudge



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