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pone
1[ pohn ]
noun
- Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- a loaf or oval-shaped cake of any type of bread, especially cornbread.
pone
2[ pohn ]
noun
- the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.
pone
1/ pəʊn /
noun
- Also calledpone breadcorn pone bread made of maize
- a loaf or cake of this
pone
2/ pəʊn; ˈpəʊnɪ /
noun
- cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
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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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