trap
22 Kiribati words
- kainikabaru
- Bingham a trap.
- ruatu
- mane
- Bingham taken, ensnared, entrapped, surrounded.
- Sabatier caught in a trap, surrounded, ensnared, found out.
- banga
- Bingham a fish trap.
- kai ni kabaru
- Sabatier a rat trap, a mouse trap.
- matakai
- Sabatier opening in fish trap (ma).
- u
- Bingham trap to catch eels <fishing>.
- mabono
- Bingham stationary trap for fish <fishing>.
- ma
- Sabatier a fish trap, made of stones, heart shaped.
- tae u
- Sabatier a manner of tying <tie>, making eel traps.
- taotao
- Sabatier (1) a fish trap, snare, line tied to a stone.
- baenata
- Bingham to engage in piling up stones as a trap for fish.
- taokabia
- Sabatier to lay a snare, to trap, to forestall, to block the passage.
- banga ni aine
- Sabatier (vulgar word) a large spherical fish trap with opening on top.
- butongotongo
- Sabatier a kind of big fish trap made of inai (mats) or leaves (temporary).
- kabaru
- Sabatier te kai ni kabaru: a mouse trap, a trap (makes a click when falling).
- tabonikai
- Bingham occupied by a fish which is dead as a fish wier or trap long unvisited by man.
- wae ni ma
- Sabatier (1) arm of fish trap, low stone wall which gathers fish towards ma (fish trap) in form of V.
- ma ni kataenako
- Sabatier (1) a fish trap (ma) having an opening at the far end where a net is placed to catch the fish.
- bekubeku
- Sabatier log hollowed out for divers uses, rat trap, mould for winding leaves for kabubu, drum for giving signals, etc.
- katang
- Bingham a loud whistle as a signal a portion of a coconut leaf to be inserted in the mouth of a fish trap to prevent escape.
- banga n tau ngea
- Sabatier a large fish trap formerly used in deep water. It was weighed down in the sea and pulled up by a hook called tau ngea.