pone

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pone
    n 1: cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or
         fried (southern) [syn: {cornpone}, {pone}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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      (a) An original writ, now superseded by the writ of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.]
    
from 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. 
    

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