English
Noun
- racoon|Racoon hunting.
#*1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76
#*: At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
#*1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72�73
#*: But if he [the dog] strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
#*1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635
#*: These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, �foxing, snaking, moling, cooning, possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;� who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
#*1950, William A. Owens (compiler), Texas Folk Songs, page 245
#*: I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,
#*: Say<!--v?-->s I, �Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?�
#*: �Oh,� says he, �Pompey Smash, if you�ll follow along with Davy,
#*: I�ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.�
#*1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0486209857, page 276
#*: �Aren�t there any Coons �round here, Mr. Clark?�
#*: �Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs�s place there�s lots o� likely Cooning ground.�
Verb
cooning
- present participle of|coon
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