pone (p n)n. Chiefly Southern U.S. [Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, cornbread.] Regional Note: A staple of the early American colonies from New England southward to Virginia was pone, a bread made by Native Americans from flat cakes of cornmeal dough baked in ashes. Pone is one of several Virginia Algonquian words (including hominy and tomahawk) borrowed into the English of the Atlantic seaboard. The word pone, usually in the compound cornpone, is now used mainly in the South, where it means cakes of cornbread baked on a griddle or in hot ashes  as the Native Americans originally cooked it. |
pone1
n Southern US
1. (Cookery) Also called pone bread corn pone bread made of maize
2. (Cookery) a loaf or cake of this
[from Algonquian; compare Delaware apán baked]
pone2
n
(Group Games / Card Games) Cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
[from Latin: put!, that is, play, from ponere to put]
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