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Webster 1913 Edition


Pone

Pone

(pōn)
,
Noun.
[Of Amer. Indian origin.]
A kind of johnnycake.
[Written also
paune
.]
[Southern U. S.]

Definition 2024


pone

pone

See also: poné

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊni/
  • (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA(key): /ˈpoʊni/
  • Homophone: pony
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

pone (plural pones)

  1. (law, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  2. (law, historical) A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

From Powhatan apones, appoans (bread), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n (thing which has been baked or roasted), whence also Abenaki abôn (bread).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pəʊn/

Noun

pone (plural pones)

  1. (Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
    • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, page 11:
      ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.
Derived terms

See also

  • hominy grits

Etymology 3

Unknown

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊni/
  • (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA(key): /ˈpoʊni/
  • Homophone: pony

Noun

pone (plural pones)

  1. (card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.

Anagrams


Interlingua

Verb

pone

  1. present of poner
  2. imperative of poner

Italian

Pronunciation

  • póne
  • IPA(key): /ˈpone/

Verb

pone

  1. third-person singular indicative present of porre

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From post + *-ne.

Preposition

pōne + accusative

  1. behind; in the rear of

Adverb

pōne (not comparable)

  1. after, back, behind, in the rear

Verb

pōne

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of pōnō

References


Old French

Noun

pone m (oblique plural pones, nominative singular pones, nominative plural pone)

  1. pone (type of writ)
    Uncore demaundoms jugement de la variaunce entre le original e le pone
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants


Spanish

Verb

pone

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of poner.
  2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of poner.