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 corn bread.
Origin
1605-15, Americanism; < Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) apones, appoans, poan < Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n- thing roasted or baked, derivative of *apwe·- to roast, bake
the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.
Origin
1885-90; < Latinpōne, 2nd person singular imperative of pōnere to place
Examples from the web for pone
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British Dictionary definitions for pone
pone1
/pəʊn/
noun (Southern US)
1.
Also called pone bread, corn pone. bread made of maize
2.
a loaf or cake of this
Word Origin
C17: from Algonquian; compare Delaware apán baked
pone2
/pəʊn; ˈpəʊnɪ/
noun
1.
(cards) the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
Word Origin
C19: from Latin: put!, that is, play, from ponere to put
Word Origin and History for pone
n.
1630s, "American Indian bread," earlier appone, ponap (1610s), from Powhatan (Algonquian) apan "something baked," from apen "she bakes." Later used in Southern U.S. for any type of cornbread.