Pone vs Hone - What's the difference?
pone | hone |
(legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
(wikipedia pone)
(Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, page 11:
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
To sharpen with a hone .
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
To refine or master (a skill).
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To pine; to lament; to long.
As nouns the difference between pone and hone
is that pone is (legal|historical) a writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts or pone can be (southern us) a baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs or pone can be the last player to bet or play in turn while hone is a sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool or hone can be a kind of swelling in the cheek.As a verb hone is
to sharpen with a hone .pone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pone and its source, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apones, .Noun
(en noun)- ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone ,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.
Derived terms
* corn poneSee also
* hominy gritsEtymology 3
Anagrams
* ----hone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* hone slate * hone stoneVerb
- (Lamb)