pone
1Also 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.
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1Other definitions for pone (2 of 2)
the player on the dealer's right.: Compare eldest hand.
the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.
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How to use pone in a sentence
The corn-bread pones vanished down their throats as fast as she could take them from the hot ashes in which they were baked.
Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) | Charles MorrisThat day, too, Gram had "mug-bread," and for supper pones made into Johnny-reb toast.
When Life Was Young | C. A. Stephens"And some candied sweet potatoes and corn pones and pear pickle," Molly broke in.
Molly Brown's Senior Days | Nell SpeedHis waist was thick with pones of sinew bulging over the hips, as one sees in the statue of Discobolus.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock | T. S. StriblingWork well with the hands, pat out in long, narrow pones, six or seven inches long and as wide as the wrist.
Housekeeping in Old Virginia | Marion Cabell Tyree
British Dictionary definitions for pone (1 of 2)
/ (pəʊn) /
Also called: pone bread, corn pone bread made of maize
a loaf or cake of this
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1British Dictionary definitions for pone (2 of 2)
/ (pəʊn, ˈpəʊnɪ) /
cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
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