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To take a bite of something hard; to bite something off
something with the teeth; to gnaw on something hard.
kagatan
Poiding maingkib atan ong agpanganen mong bayabas?
Can I take
a
bite of the guava you are eating there?
Doli bato ta onopa tang aggingkiben tang kirong asi?
What kind of a bone do you think that dog is gnawing
on?
Tenged indio nagekel ta ged ang gamiten para
manibabaw animan ganing tang maistrao, “Ala,
ingkiben mo tang ibabawen.”
Because I didn't bring a machete to use for weeding
therefore my teacher said, “Okay, you just bite
off the
weeds then.”
Paingkiben mo kay tanandia ong bato para indi matalagbat.
Have him gnaw
on a rock so that he won't be
bewitched.
Some people say that when a person arrives in a new place,
they should gnaw on a large rock by the beach so that the
evil spirits will know them and not cause anything bad to
happen to them.