rackoon

One of the people too shot a rackoon, which is also of the dog kind, and as big as a small fox, though its legs are shorter, and when fat has a much higher relish than either mutton or kid.

The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published 1841

Less usual spelling of words such as rackoon and periogues have been left as they appear in the original book.

The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman 1832

January 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm itsa red panda, memmer ov the rackoon famblee, K?

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Lydia, the woman whom I have mentioned heretofore, was one of the women whose husbands procured little or nothing for the sustenance of their families, and I often gave her a quarter of a rackoon or a small opossum, for which she appeared very thankful.

Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave, Charles Ball 1859

Drewyer visit his traps at took out an otter. the fur of both the beaver and otter as also the rackoon in this countrey are extreemly good; those animals are tolerably plenty near the Sea coast, on the Small creeks and rivers as high as the grand Rapids.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

*snugglols in blankie n nibblols chonklitt rackoon*

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a Robinson Crusoe dress, that is, trimming an old hunting cap and jacket with rackoon skins.

Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838

As early as 1612 Captain John Smith gives aroughcune as the aboriginal Virginia word, and more than one New England writer used rackoon a few years later.] [Footnote 8: This prefixed y is a mark of a very illiterate or antique form of the dialect.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871

Virginia word, and more than one New England writer used _rackoon_ a few years later.] [Footnote 8: This prefixed _y_ is a mark of a very illiterate or antique form of the dialect.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869