A rice-pounding trough used to remove grains from rice stems.
Made of a large log, with a trough interior up to 1« m. long by about « m. wide at the top, with sides and ends rounded inward. It rests flat on the ground. From one to three sheaves are placed inside and pounded with a pestle, lalu. Straws are removed by hand and the remaining grains are winnowed, tāap, placed in a mortar and pounded in the usual manner. A rice-pounding trough is used when much rice is being prepared as, for example, during rice transplanting or harvest season, bogay 1, īwang2 or when few hands are available for stripping straws from grains, ūlut 2, or when the rice straws, ūlut 1, are too short for easy stripping as, e.g., with second-crop rice, linawang.