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noun
A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: law
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noun
A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: law
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noun
A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
The last player to bet or play in turn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
Topics: card-games, games, law
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noun
cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cornpone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cornbread
History
Inherited from Middle English pone, from Anglo-Norman pone, from Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative of pōnere (“to place”).
Borrowed from Powhatan apones, appoans (“bread”), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n (“thing which has been baked or roasted”), whence also Abenaki abôn (“bread”).
Perhaps borrowed from Latin ponere.
