usuk 2
verb
English. Removes meat from shells, as of nuts snails, mollusks.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Ki niug kiin, sa' metubus niu pemekla'ay, pengusuk niu dayun, adun mengkag sa' memedes.
English. When you finish splitting those coconut open, thenremove their meat, so that it can be dried when it's sunny.
mengusuk bulud
noun
English. A medium-sized, .5 kg., long-billed gray bird which preys on water snails.
Example sentence:
Subanen. Ki mengusuk bulud, megbenwa di geksid tubig. Iini gaanen, susu', bulud, tuay, muka' kelembuay.
English. The snail-remover bird lives beside rivers. It eats susu' snails, the large bulud snails, shellfish and the medium-size kelembuay snails.
Generic. manukmanuk