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▪ I. ‖ pone1 Law. Obs.|ˈpəʊnɪ| [L. pōne ‘place thou’, sing. imper. of pōnĕre to place.] a. A writ by which a suit was removed from an inferior court to the Court of Common Pleas. b. A writ requiring the sheriff to secure the appearance of the defendant by attaching his goods or by causing him to find sureties for his appearance.
1292Britton vi. iv. §3 Et puis tendra lu le Pone a remuer la parole jekes par devaunt nos Justices. [tr. After that, a Pone will lie to remove it before our Justices.] Ibid. x. §5 El plee de Pone [in the plea of Pone]. a1500Natura Breuium (1531) 2 b, Si le plee soit remoue par vn Pone hors del countie en le banke. 1544transl., Yf the ple be remoued by a Pone out of the counte in to the comon banke. 1607Cowell Interpr., Pone, is a writ, whereby a cause depending in the County court, is remoued to the common Banke... Pone per vadium, is a writ commaunding the Shyreeue to take suretie of one for his appearance at a day assigned. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. xix. 280 The next process is by writ of attachment or pone. 1876Digby Real Prop. ii. §2. 73. ▪ II. pone2|ˈpəʊniː| [Derivation as in prec.] In certain card games: see quots.
1890Cent. Dict., Pone, in the game of vingt-et-un, the player to the left of the dealer; the eldest hand. 1901R. F. Foster Bridge Manual 5 The leader, or eldest hand, is on the dealer's left, and the pone, or leader's partner, is on the dealer's right. ▪ III. pone3|pəʊn| [ad. Algonkin pone (see quot. 1683), apone (Strachey Vocab. Virgin. c 1615), oppone (Beverley), bread, perh. orig. a pa. pple. ‘baked’.] a. orig. The bread of the N. Amer. Indians, made of maize flour in thin cakes, and cooked in hot ashes; now, in southern U.S., any bread made of maize, esp. that of a coarse or poor kind; also, very fine light bread, enriched with milk, eggs, and the like, and made in flat cakes. Also attrib.
[1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 17 Eating the broth with the bread which they call Ponap.] 1634Relat. Ld. Baltimore's Plantat. (1865) 17 Their ordinary diet is Poane and Omine, both made of Corne. 1683Penn Let. Descr. Pennsylvania 5 Of words of Sweetness, Anna, is Mother..pone, Bread, metse, eat. 1708E. Cook Sot-weed Factor (1900) 14 While Pon and Milk, with Mush well stoar'd, In wooden Dishes grac'd the Board. a1716Beverley Virginia iv. §72 (1722) 253 The Bread in Gentlemen's Houses, is generally made of Wheat, but some rather choose the Pone, which is the Bread made of Indian Meal,..so called..from the Indian Name Oppone. 1799J. Smith Acc. Remark. Occur. (1870) 160 We are not above borrowing language from them, such as homoni, tomahawk, pone, &c. 1861Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 229 To see how he liked pork 'n' pone. 1901Max Adeler Capt. Bluett 108 Becky's surpassing power with pone muffins. b. A cake or loaf of such bread.
1796B. H. Latrobe Jrnl. (1905) 16 A few biscuits, and pones of Indian and wheat bread. 1887Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Dec. 2/4 The meal consisted partly of half a dozen pones. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 201/1 In a short time the pones were shaped and placed in the ashes. c. attrib. as pone bread.
c1785in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1907) II. 258, I procured some milk and excellent pone bread from a hut. 1833J. Neal Down-Easters I. 47, I should like to know..what upon irth he means by..hoe-cakes an pone bread. 1879Scribner's Monthly June 223/1 Now that the wagons were up and ‘pone’ bread and beef stews had re-appeared in the menu, the Foot Cavalry, feeling its keep, waxed fat and kicked. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. viii. 175 Nobody..don't take de fork and turn over every fish in de dish in order to pick de best one. You does dat wid yo' eye whilst youse choosin' yo' pone bread. 1936J. C. Chenault Old Cane Springs xviii. 78 Then pone bread, light bread, and biscuits were brought out. ▪ IV. pone, -garnarde obs. ff. poon n.1, pomegranate. |