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pone

1

[ pohn ]

noun

, South Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
  2. a loaf or oval-shaped cake of any type of bread, especially cornbread.


pone

2

[ pohn ]

noun

, Cards.
  1. the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
  2. the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.

pone

1

/ ˈpəʊnɪ; pəʊn /

noun

  1. cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


pone

2

/ pəʊn /

noun

  1. Also calledpone breadcorn pone bread made of maize
  2. a loaf or cake of this
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pone1

An Americanism dating back to 1605–15; from Virginia Algonquian ( English spelling) apones, appoans, poan, from Proto-Algonquian apwa·n (unattested) “thing roasted or baked”

Origin of pone2

1885–90; < Latin pōne, 2nd person singular imperative of pōnere to place
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pone1

C19: from Latin: put!, that is, play, from ponere to put

Origin of pone2

C17: from Algonquian; compare Delaware apán baked
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Example Sentences

I des wish you look at dat pone er co'n-bread, honey, en dem ar greens, en see ef dey aint got Remus writ some'rs on um.

The supper was a simple one, consisting of corn pone and buttermilk, bacon and scrambled eggs.

Some of the boys, whose hunger was chronic, would begin on theirs and never stop until the last pone had been eaten.

A fire was lighted, and each hunter displayed his pone of bread, along with a flask of whiskey.

He enjoyed the breakfast of very hard corn pone and bacon, and took out his beloved watch.

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