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The definition of a pone is a small loaf or cake made of corn.

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An example of a pone is a tiny oval loaf of cornbread.

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noun

corn bread in the form of small, oval loaves
such a loaf or cake

Origin: Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, apones

noun

Now Rare in various card games, the player to the right of the dealer or, in two-handed games, the player who is not the dealer

Origin: < L pone, imper. of ponere, to place: see position

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noun
Chiefly Southern U.S.

See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread.

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Origin: 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.

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