Meaning of cooning | Babel Free

Definitions

Racoon hunting.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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”

“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...”

“I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning, Says 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.””

““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.”

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