For someone (agent -um-; s agent maN-) to crush the stalk of a fibrous plant (patient -on), such as sugarcane, unah, with something (inst paN-), as a sugarcane press, apalan, a piece of wood used to pound an arrow-grass cane, bilāu.
pamalbag; mamalbag
Nabalbag din unah an ene'palmi at nahetan.
The sugarcane which we squeezed was crushed and so was dry of its juice.
For something (actor -um- & inst) to crush the stalk of a fibrous plant, as for the wind which twists a tree in a storm, a sugarcane press, apalan, which crushes a sugarcane stalk.