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Pone vs Hone - What's the difference?

pone | hone |

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)
  • (legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
  • (wikipedia pone)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) apones, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
  • ‘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 pone

    See also

    * hominy grits

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The last player to bet or play in turn.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    hone

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms
    * hone slate * hone stone

    Verb

  • 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.
  • (Lamb)

    See also

    * grit * sandpaper * steel * strop * swarf

    Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic word for "a knob".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of swelling in the cheek.
  • Derived terms
    * honewort ----