For pliers, tongs or the like (actor -um- & theme; s actor maN- & theme) to pinch someone or something (loc ref -on); for something (actor -um- & theme) to trap someone or something (loc ref -on), as for a tree to pin down someone, or something when falling to the ground; arrow-grass canes, bilāu, in a fence to catch the head of a pig; a wild-pig trap to catch an animal.