Where did Dust Bowl farmers go during the great depression? The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what tâ¦hey could in cars and trucks and headed west.
Actually, the term is as old as the Navy, or perhaps older. Nautically, a lanyard is a short rope or wire rove through deadeyes to hold and tauten standing rigging. Lanyards are also known as the rope that is pulled to fire a cannon from a ship. Pirates actually using lanyards! We love that image here.
(plural pawns) 1  The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage. 2  An instance of pawning something. ( 3 now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge. ( 4 rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.