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kororo

Bingham

kóroro

va. cut too short, as a skirt or trousers.
va. deformed, as a person born with one hand.

Sabatier

kororo

na. short, too short, incomplete, bandy legged.
vc. ka-kororoa: to make short, to cut short.
ex. kororo is said for things standing or hanging and kimototo for things lying or stretched out.

koro-ro

na. which cuts the anchor rope (said of coral).

kororo1

a. eighteen (counting in two's).

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