Title: coon - Wiktionary
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Content: ( Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek . quotations ▼
a. 1917, Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”, Outing, W. B. Holland, volume LXIX, page 216: There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “ cooning ” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair. 1957, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, volume XVI, Arkansas Historical Association: 2 o'clock we float up to Duvall's landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie. 1982, Edwin Van Syckle, The River Pioneers, Early Days on Grays Harbor, Pacific Search Press, page 186: “Advertising” was one problem for frontier women.