Peon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see 2d Pawn.

II. Peon ·noun ·see Poon.

III. Peon ·noun A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

IV. Peon ·noun 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.

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