fish hook
21 Kiribati words
- matau
- Bingham fish-hook <fishing>.
- Sabatier a fish hook.
- ngea
- Bingham a large fish hook made of ngea.
- Sabatier (2) large fish hook made formerly of ngea used to catch shark.
- taeabea
- Bingham stripped as a fishhook of its bait.
- Bingham to strip a fishhook of its bait as a fish does.
- tania
- Bingham a spare fishhook.
- toroa
- Bingham to file as a fishhook.
- eba
- Bingham small case for fish-hooks.
- kaneati
- Bingham a fish-hook of mother of pearl.
- tanga
- Bingham straightened out as a fishhook.
- karere
- Bingham a home-made or extemporized fish-hook.
- katama
- Bingham to fish for onauti with a fish-hook.
- reikabu
- Sabatier a fish hook of wood for shark fishing.
- kateke
- Bingham well fitted as a fish-hook to take fish.
- raun
- Bingham a kind of fish-hookmade of mother-of-pearl.
- etieti
- Bingham easily straightened out as a poor fish-hook.
- niranuba
- Bingham a small cord wound around a fishhook and the takai as a protection.
- tara
- Bingham a barbed fishhook, a short spear with shark's teeth differently sloped.
- tikoba
- Bingham a scoop-net for receiving fish before being detached from the fishhook.
- bwetua
- Sabatier 3. te matau ae te bwetua: a kind of fish hook which has no hole to fasten it to the line.
- riakitoauea
- Bingham a mode of fishing on a canoe with a fishhook in which the fisherman claims or eats the fish which he catches.
- takai
- Bingham a short cord attached at the middle to a fishhook and then twisted into one as a link to the principal fish line.
- ikantaotao
- Bingham fish caught with a fish-hook and line anchored with a little stone in the bottom of a channel where a current is running.