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1a

A spade; made of wood in past time, now of iron.

1b

A spade blade.

The blade of an iron spade has a rolled handle base, hālung, into which the handle, pā'aw, is inserted.

hu'lay 1b pāla 1b

2

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to do spadework on gravel, mud, soil (loc ref -on) with the use of a shovel, gāud, (inst i-, paN-).

pangāud; mangāud

Gināud Ballug din lūta ya intapalna.

Ballug did spadework with the soil, throwing it away.

Included in work accomplished with a shovel in pond fields is the following: leveling mud, gulud; moving soil, either horizontally or vertically, pāla 2; plastering a dike, pi'pi'; sluicing, budūbud; removing old dike-plaster, kīdah; turning soil over, bale'tag.

hu'lay 2

3

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to do land-work (theme) on a land configuration (loc ref -an) by constructing or repairing it, as on a landslide scar, goday, a house or pond field terrace, an irrigation ditch, āla'; a trail, wanti; road, kulha; wild-pig trench obstruction, lotang; stone wall, tapeng.

Land-work involves the use of a spade but also includes such activities as selection of stones and building stonewalling.

pāla 2