A circumscribed indentation of a mortar, a playing top.
Mortars, luhung, are decorated with a circumscribed indentation halfway down the side; a playing top, bogwat, has an indentation into which the string is wound.
For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to chisel or carve a circumscribed indentation (theme) into a mortar or playing top (loc ref -an) with the use of a chisel, knife (inst i-, paN-), as described above.