totokoa

Bingham: Hiram Bingham, A Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1908, 1953). American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Sabatier: Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français (1954), translated by Sr. M. Oliva as Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1971). South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau.

Bingham

totókoa

vt. to try to prevent from falling, as a tree, by means of a brace, to brace.

totokoa

vt. to support, to prop, to stay, to hold up by propping.

syn. tautokoa, bakatokoa, kautokoa (S.).

n. te kai n totoko... ni bakatoko... ni kautoko (S.). a prop, counterfort, support, buttress.