needle
9 Kiribati words
- neiran
- Bingham needle.
- Sabatier needle.
- neiro
- Bingham needle.
- tu
- Bingham a bone sail-needle.
- Sabatier a large packing needle, awl, skewer, stem (noko, ani) used as bodkin.
- rika
- Bingham a wooden needle for braiding nets.
- kainikakari
- Bingham a wooden needle for tying on thatch to a roof.
- itu
- Sabatier te tu: a big needle, end of string for threading fish.
- wai itua
- Sabatier to thread on, to string by piercing <pierce> with needle, etc.
- wi
- Sabatier (1) teeth <tooth>, mouth, beak, point, needle, blade, age judged from teeth;
- ana
- Sabatier a fish, (small, slender species) needle fish, garfish, half beak; species -- te ana ororo, te ana tababa, te ana bungibung.