pawn (n.)
- agent
- appliance
- assurance
- bail
- bishop
- bond
- castle
- chance
- chessman
- cog
- collateral
- commonality
- commonalty
- contrivance
- creature
- deposit
- device
- dip
- dummy
- dupe
- earnest
- escrow
- flunky
- follower
- gage
- gamble
- go-between
- guarantee
- guaranty
- handmaid
- handmaiden
- hazard
- hock
- hostage
- implement
- inferior
- instrument
- intermediary
- intermediate
- intermedium
- junior
- king
- knight
- lever
- lightweight
- man
- masses
- mechanism
- mediator
- medium
- midwife
- minion
- mortgage
- organ
- piece
- plaything
- pledge
- plight
- pop
- post
- puppet
- queen
- recognizance
- risk
- rook
- secondary
- security
- servant
- slave
- spout
- stake
- stooge
- subaltern
- subordinate
- surety
- token
- tool
- touch
- toy
- underling
- undertaking
- vehicle
- venture
- warrant
- yes-man