Definitions for pone

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pone pone

Spelling: [pohn]

IPA: /poʊn/

Pone is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in pone (enop).

Definitions for pone

noun

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 corn bread.
3. the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
4. the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.

Origin of pone

1605-15, Americanism; Virginia Algonquian (E spelling) apones, appoans, poan *apwa·n- thing roasted or baked, derivative of *apwe·- to roast, bake

Examples for pone

Wid dat, ole Miss Rabbit, she tuck'n fry 'im up a rasher er bacon, en bake 'im a pone er bread.

Barely in time to save the morsel of pone, he spoke and the head was dashed up.

His ordinary dinner consists of a head of cabbage, boiled in salt water, and a pone of corn bread.

Then the burly man shoved in a pone of cornbread and a pan of water.

The one rejected is added to the stock in the hands of the pone.

He raised the morsel of "pone" between thumb and forefinger, holding it tightly.

A little oil may be added to the meal for pone, but then it will not be straight.

I had a pone of cornbread and a Mr. Rat in my file had a piece of bacon.

We ate hominy, mush, grits and pone bread for the most part.

Next, from an old worn haversack, he took a "chunk" of raw bacon and a "pone" of corn bread.