Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

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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