Definitions for pones

pones pone

Spelling: [pohn]
IPA: /poʊn/

Pones is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in pones (enops).

Definitions for pones

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 pones

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

Examples for pones

The pones were simply large, round, thin corn-meal cakes baked in a fritter-spider in a hot oven.

We'd put salt in de meal and scald it wid boiling water and make it into pones and bake it.

Roll out in pones and wrap in a corn shuck or collard leaves or paper.

Some of the pones had also the appearance of slow convalescence from chill and fever.

All he gave them to eat was unsalted millet bread, baked like pones, or entirely unbaked dough.

As a hungry boy I used sometimes to think that pones and "Johnny-reb toast" were pretty nearly worth the War to us!

She would take meal and put salt in it and pour boiling water over it and make into pones.

Over coals meat was baked and meal in pones was wrapped in poplar leaves to bake in de ashes.

Brush a place clean before the fire and lay the pones upon it.

De pones was pile up on pones, en on de top wuz a great big ash-cake.

Word Value for pones
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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