coon it

Verb

coon it (third-person singular simple present coons it, present participle cooning it, simple past and past participle cooned it)

1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To crawl by straddling a log, especially in crossing a creek, or similar, such as a construction beam.
   • there was no bridge, and to supply the want a large tree was cut down and fell across the stream, from bank to bank, and thus made a safe log bridge. The crossing of such a bridge, in Western parlance, is styled cooning, therefore, in times of freshets, Prentiss and his scholars had to coon it over...1884, Joseph Dunbar Shields, The Life and Times of Sergeant Smith Prentiss, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Ayer Publishing, published 1971, →ISBN, page 27
   • But the other day one of the logging company’s engineers was spotted cooning it along a big hemlock log which had been felled across the river years ago. The Teal was leaping at his ankles and shouting its spring song, while the lad inched along and looked everywhere but down.1920, author kept strictly confidential by Google Books, The Beaver, Hudson’s Bay Company, page 45