Pone

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pone \Pone\ (p[=o]n), n. [Of Amer. Indian origin.]
     A kind of johnnycake. [Written also {paune}.] [Southern U.
     S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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        (a) An original writ, now superseded by the writ of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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pone
       n : cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried
           (Southern) [syn: {cornpone}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.