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Brewer's: Borrow
A pledge. To borrow is to take something which we pledge ourselves to return. (Anglo-Saxon, borg, a loan or pledge; verb borg-ian.)
“Ye may retain as borrows my two priests.” —Scott: Ivanhoe, chap. xxxiii.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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