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

/ pəʊn /

noun

1. Also calledpone breadcorn pone bread made of maize
2. a loaf or cake of this

pone

²

/ pəʊn; ˈpəʊnɪ /

noun

1. cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pone¹

C17: from Algonquian; compare Delaware apán baked

Origin of pone²

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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