coons it
coons it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coon it.
Meaning of coon it
Verb
coon it (third-person singular simple present coons it, present participle cooning it, simple past and past participle cooned it)
- 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
Questions about coons it
- What is coons it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Coons it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coon it.
Words near coons it in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coons it (page history and authors); coon it (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “coons it.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coons_it. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.