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To strip a midrib of its leaves, such as a coconut frond;
to prepare bamboo or rattan by stripping the leaves,
splitting it, and cleaning it by scraping it with a machete.
Nagaloto ta ogat ta nioy para boateno rin ang silig amen.
I stripped
the
leaves
off the coconut midribs to make
them into a broom.
Mga magalota tang ikodal ang kawayan, indi ra
pataladen mo tang kapotan na.
When you split
and
clean the bamboo for the fencing,
don't make the ends pointed.