The small, curved machete used by gatherers of coconut wine, to cut the coconut flower capsule. (It can also be used as a scythe for cutting cogon grass.)
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Ang tangget ay aggamiten tang mananggiti ang aggegeret
tang boyok tang nioy para tombod.
The small
curved
machete is used by coconut-wine
gatherers to cut the capsule of the coconut flower so the nectar
will flow out.
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The overall term for collecting teba coconut wine;
specifically, the action of cutting the capsule with a
tangget machete; the trees from which coconut wine is
collected.
Mimpisa ra onong manangget ta nioy si Juan mandian ang Oktobri.
Juan will reportedly begin to collect
coconut
wine this
October.