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kuo

Bingham

kúo

n. a coconut-shell cup for receiving boiled anointing oil before putting it into a bottle.

Sabatier

kuo

n. (1) a vessel, a measure for perfumed oil (half-shell);
ex. te kuona, ua kuo, etc.: oil in this vessel was used formerly as mirror.
v. (2) kukuo, kuokuo, kukuokuo: to peel, to shell, to strip bark, to scratch.
pref. to some compound words.

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