Peon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Spanish) a day-labourer, esp. in Spanish-speaking America
• a Spanish-American day labourer or unskilled farm worker.
• a person who does menial work
• a debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico.
• (in South and SE Asia) a low-ranking soldier or worker.
• Spanish-American farm labourer or unskilled worker
• See Poon.
• A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
• 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.
• See 2d Pawn.
• a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an unskilled laborer

Words related to PEON

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Words that contain PEON

peons7 peony10 peones8 peonage10 peonies9 peonism11 peonages11 peonisms12

How to use PEON in a sentence

• It has paid better wages than the peon could earn any other way.
• The local peon desires to toil no longer than is necessary to obtain the bare wherewithal to fill his belly.
• Duane glanced from Black to 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.
• The distance to the peon was about fifty paces, too far for even the most expert shot to hit a moving object so small as a bucket.
• Having ushered him in, the peon withdrew, and Desmond was alone with the two men he had most cause to fear.
• Pasquale had been a peon in his youth, an outlaw for twenty years, and a czar for three.
• He could lie for hours and bask in the sunshine with the patient content of the Mexican peon.
• Ochampa, who for the moment had charge of the artillery officer, swooped down upon the peon and put him temporarily at the service of his guest to fetch and carry at his orders.
• And there was the peon scampering barefooted across from one of the huts to take their horses.
• Behind him trotted a big, muscular peon who saw not half the reason for haste that blazoned itself across the soul of Diego.
• It was only the blind worship and the loyalty of a peon whose feet were bare, whose hands were calloused with labor, whose face was seamed with the harshness of his serfdom.
• Piute was eating his supper, and the peon had just come in.
• Piute and Peon were skinning coyotes by the blaze of the fire.
• Piute was jovial, but no one appeared willing to talk save the peon, and he could only grimace.
• Bruised and bleeding in a southern, peon camp, where he and other hungry men had been trapped by a brutal slave driver, he drank the bitter cup of unrequited toil.
• A month later my gang came roaring back from the peon camp.
• When darkness set in Senora Mora sent a letter by a peon to an old family friend at his home on the river.
• The peon class has always been a faithful laboring class in the coffee, sugar, and tobacco estates, and the slave element was never large.

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