1.
[syn: cornpone, pone]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pone \Pone\ (p[=o]n), n. [Of Amer. Indian origin.]
A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U.
S.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pone \Po"ne\ (p[=o]"n[=e]), n. [L. pone, imper. of ponere to
place.]
1.
(a) An original writ, now superseded by the writ of
certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court
into the Court of Exchequer.
(b) An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by
attaching goods or requiring securities.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (pron. p[=o]n) (Card Playing) The player who cuts the
cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pone
n 1: cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or
fried (southern) [syn: cornpone, pone]
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
PONE, English practice. An original writ issuing out of chancery, for the
purpose of removing a plaint from an inferior court into the superior courts
at Westminster. The word signifies "put;" put by gages, &c. The writ is
called from the words it contained when in Latin, "Pone per vadium et salvos
plegios," &c. Put by gage and safe pledges, &c. See F. N. B. 69, 70 a;
Wilkinson on Replevin, Index.