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(Sp. alcancía) Money-box, especially a money-box made out of bamboo, or out of a coconut shell.

(B) A small coconut-shell vessel, a small hungút, money-box. (see alkansíya, kabû).

(B) A small coconut-shell vessel, a small hungút, money-box. (see alkansíya, kabû).

(H) A primitive kind of bowl made from the shell of the coconut; money box. (see hungút, ipóg, alkansíya).

To poke or fish out with a stick, cane, pole, etc. Loglogá ang búhò sang ilagâ. Poke the stick down the rat-hole. Drive the rat out of its hole. Loglogá ang haroán. Poke the mud-eel out with a stick. Ginlóglog sang mga bátà ang kwárta nga sa sulúd sang alkansíya. The boys fished out the money from the slotted bamboo box. (see gúlò, lúgit, lúkit).

To bore, make a hole by a boring action with some pointed instrument; to fish-, ferret-, out with a stick or the like, as money from a box, etc. Lugíti ang tápì. Bore a hole in the board. Linugítan níya ang baúl kag ginkáwat níya ang nasulúd nga pílak. He made a hole in the trunk and stole the money that was in there. Ilúgit sa kawáyan iníng dulát. Use this awl to bore a hole in the bamboo. Ginlúgit (linúgit) níya ang kwárta sa alkansíya. He fished out (with a stick smeared with birdlime, or the like) the coins from the slotted money box. (see lóglog).