cooning

Noun

 * 1) Racoon hunting.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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
 * 1) * 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...