A sugarcane vise press, consisting of a long pole lever, hewagan 2, which presses against a block, dilāan, squeezing juice from sugarcane stalks, unah.
The pole lever is about six meters long and is inserted at one end into a hole, hewag 2, in a bank to serve as a hinge in moving the other end up and down. It presses down onto a crushing block, dilāan, which is about one and a half meters long, 180 cm. wide by 200 cm. thick, with two legs, tū'ud, anchored into the ground. A sugarcane vise press is ceremonially used by a rich person to squeeze cane juice to mix with rice beer, bayah, on sugarcane-wine-making day, hubul 2a. Two days before this day, the men go into the forest and select a very straight, long tree of the bulti' variety to be used as the lever, and a shorter piece for the crushing block. That late afternoon a pig is butchered and eaten, alā'ag. The following day they construct the sugarcane vise press and again in the afternoon a pig is butchered and eaten. The third day is sugarcane-wine-making day, hubol 2a.