Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cornbread; in the southwestern United States, any bread made of Indian corn, especially coarse kinds used by the negroes and poorer whites, commonly called corn-pone; also, finer bread, made with milk and eggs, in flat cakes about an inch thick, very light and delicate. See johnny-cake, hoe-cake.
- noun A loaf or cake of such bread.
- noun In old English law: A writ whereby an action depending in an inferior court might be removed into the Court of Common Pleas.
- noun A writ whereby the sheriff was commanded to take security of a person for his appearance upon an assigned day.
- noun In the game of vingt-et-un, the player to the left of the dealer; the eldest hand.
- noun In English and American card games, as bridge, the player who sits at the right of the dealer. See
bridge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Southern U. S. A kind of johnnycake.
- noun An original writ, now superseded by the writ of certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court into the Court of Exchequer.
- noun An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
- noun (Card Playing) The player who cuts the cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law, historical A
writ inlaw used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts. - noun southern US A
baked orfried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made withoutmilk oreggs . - noun card games The last player to
bet orplay in turn.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the same time he would throw up his cards, or hand them to the player on the dealer's right, who is termed the pone, and whose duty it is to collect the cards as they are played and keep them in readiness for the dealer when he requires a further supply.
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The bread in gentlemen's houses is generally made of wheat, but some choose the pone, which is the bread made of Indian meal.
Colonial Children 1902
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"pone" -- two varieties of cornbread -- were regularly eaten at breakfast and dinner.
The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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If you don't have a child between 7 and 13 years old, you're probably furrowing your brow right now, wondering what the word "pone" could possibly mean.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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According to urban lore, "pone" was coined by young fans of the boy band the Jonas Brothers who recently rocked Abu Dabhi in what was surely one of the stranger concerts in human history, or even -- so the Brothers are said to claim -- directly by them.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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According to urban lore, "pone" was coined by young fans of the boy band the Jonas Brothers who recently rocked Abu Dabhi in what was surely one of the stranger concerts in human history, or even -- so the Brothers are said to claim -- directly by them.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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If you don't have a child between 7 and 13 years old, you're probably furrowing your brow right now, wondering what the word "pone" could possibly mean.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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According to urban lore, "pone" was coined by young fans of the boy band the Jonas Brothers who recently rocked Abu Dabhi in what was surely one of the stranger concerts in human history, or even -- so the Brothers are said to claim -- directly by them.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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If you don't have a child between 7 and 13 years old, you're probably furrowing your brow right now, wondering what the word "pone" could possibly mean.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
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According to urban lore, "pone" was coined by young fans of the boy band the Jonas Brothers who recently rocked Abu Dabhi in what was surely one of the stranger concerts in human history, or even -- so the Brothers are said to claim -- directly by them.
Mark Levine: How Much Longer Will the US Get 'Poned' by Israel? Until it Changes the Rules of the Game Mark Levine 2010
hernesheir commented on the word pone
In the game of cribbage, the dealer's opponent.
June 29, 2010
mollusque commented on the word pone
"All right, New Shoes! I'm fixing to smack you hard right across those pones of yours, where you need it most," she cried. "And for the rest of your punishment, you're to come straight home from school today and tell me something you've learned."
--Eudora Welty, 1970, Losing Battles
December 24, 2010
bilby commented on the word pone
Ha, another bit of classic Weirdnet.
December 17, 2012