panyar (English, verb)
expansion: panyar (third-person singular simple present panyars, present participle panyarring, simple past and past participle panyarred)
Senses:
glosses: To seize and hold (a person) until the repayment of a debt or resolution of a dispute, common along the Atlantic coast of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
tags: historical
transitive
Forms:
form: panyars
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: panyarring
tags: participle
present
form: panyarred
tags: participle
past
form: panyarred
tags: past