For someone (agent maN-, muɴ-) to skim or take something (theme -on) from the surface of a liquid (loc ref), with the use of a suitable instrument, as a hand; ladle, ha'lung; shovel, gāud, (inst i-, paN-), as to skim off dirt floating on drinking water, to skim off pulp on top of pressed sugarcane juice, to catch fish at the surface of water after putting in poison, to pick off a chip of wood floating on water.