Southern U.S. [See PONE.] A kind of Indian corn-bread made with milk and eggs; also a loaf of this bread.
1860. in Bartlett, Dict. Amer.
1886. Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 8 Dec., 2/4. A Southern Society has been formed in New York, and its members are confident in being as happy over the corn-pone and the hog-jowl as the New Englanders over doughnuts and hard cider.
1890. T. H. Mann, in Century Mag., Aug., 615/1. His comrade [produced] several large corn-pones.
