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raft

4 Kiribati words

• ebaeba
  • Bingham raft, float.
  • Bingham rafting.
  • Sabatier a raft, barge.
• aeae
  • Sabatier a raft.
• roatana
  • Bingham to make a raft of ripe coconuts or firewood for the purpose of towing or transporting the same.
  • Sabatier roatana: to make raft of coconuts and drag them by sea.
• kateibaobao
  • Sabatier to make platforms, shelter, supports. to make rafts, temporary embarkations (to escape in war-time formerly), to use these rafts to make escape, to ask and obtain mercy (in war). (that is to say, escape the same as if one had escaped on a raft).