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shoal

17 Kiribati words

• ora
  • Bingham shallow, shoal, not deep, low tide.
  • Bingham flat reef from the beach to the breakers, shoal.
• kuia
  • Sabatier a shoal of young fish.
• naunang
  • Bingham shoal or school of fish.
• rakai
  • Bingham a coral shoal in a lagoon.
• matarake
  • Bingham shoal water near the flats.
• ikanikae
  • Bingham fish run down in shoal water.
• au
  • Bingham coming in shoals, plentious as fish.
• kaiti
  • Bingham an anchorage, a comparatively shoal spot.
• kakorobaea
  • Bingham to allow a canoe to ground in shoal water.
• ikabuti
  • Bingham fish which come in shoals at certain times.
• tuake
  • Bingham a shoal or ledge projecting into a channel.
• kataurakea
  • Bingham to approach shoal water as a school of fish.
• kawa
  • Bingham to move along in a company or flock or shoal.
• obo
  • Bingham place near the beach never shoal at low water.
• iakiaki
  • Bingham strike again and again on a shoal when tossed by the waves.
• bariko
  • Sabatier a heap, a pile, a stack, an assembly, a crowd, swarm, shoal.
• kakataurake
  • Bingham frequentative of kataurake to draw near as a shoal of fish.