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(Sp. flete) Fare, freight, freightage; hire, payment for the lease or hire of; to hire, lease (out), take on lease, engage a vehicle, etc. Pilá ang pléte? What is the fare? How much is to be paid for the lease or hire? Ginpletehán ko ang íya áwto, ang íya baláy, etc. I engaged his auto. I hired his house, etc. Ipapléte mo sa ákon ang ímo dútà, kabáyo, etc. Let me have your land on lease, let me hire your horse, etc. (see hinákay).
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Fallow, untilled, uncultivated, uncropped; to be or lie fallow. Póo nga dútà. Fallow ground. Nagpóo iníng talámnan, kay walâ dirí ang tagíya. This land lies fallow (is untilled), for the owner is not here.
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(Sp. recibo) Receipt, deed; to make out a receipt or deed. Resibóhi ang ákon ginbáyad sa ímo. Make out a receipt for what I have paid you. Ginresibóhan níya ang dútà nga ákon ginprénda sa íya. He made out a deed for the land I mortgaged to him. (see kalig-onán, dokuménto).
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A rice-measure of twenty-five gantas to the bushel. Ipaágsa ka sa ímo ang ákon talámnan kon sugút ikáw sa pagbáyad sa ákon sa tuígtúig sing duhá ka púlò ka pásong nga humáy sa réyna (nga solókban, pasongán). I'll let you have my land on lease, if you agree to pay me a yearly rental of twenty bushels of rice. Old people use to say: Ang duhá ka pásong sa probínsya, kon sókbon sa réyna, mahímò nga tátlo ka pásong. Two bushels of the "sa probínsya" standard are equal to three bushels, if measured by the "sa réyna" standard.
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To glean, pick out, select, gather, cut the best ears with the rice cutter, collect the best or passable ears from a bad crop or from a crop spoilt by the action of birds, insects, etc. and leave the rest alone. Saghawá ang humáy. Gather the best rice-ears (and leave the rest in the field). Kúl-aw gid ang ámon pinatubás sa karón nga túig; sinaghawán lang námon ang ámon talámnan. This year we had a bad harvest; we just (picked out and) gathered the better ears from our rice-land (and left the rest as pasture for the cattle, etc.). Saghawá ang nabilín nga alányon. Gather what is left of the rice-crop. (see ág-ag, panálà, panagílò).
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To encroach upon, seize, take, grasp, hold fast to, commit forcible seizure, appropriate (unlawfully). Sakamón (Sákmon) ko iní. I shall seize it, take hold of it. Ginísol níla ang ákon korál kag sinakám ang ákon dútà. (Ginísol nánda ang kodál kag sinakám ang lúpà ko). They put back the fence and encroached on my land. Ginsakám siá sang kalisúd. He was overwhelmed with grief. (see sakúm, sabán, sáklam).
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A zacate-field, land for growing fodder for animals.
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To tie-, hitch-, hang-, on to. Isánglà mo yanáng dútà sa bánko. Mortgage that land to the bank. (see sángat).
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To graze, slice off the surface, shave off, make a superficial wound with a cutting instrument or the like. Ginsápla níya ang kalabása sang kótsilyo. He pared off the rind of the squash with the knife. Nasápla sang binángon ang ákon bútkon. My arm received a surface wound from the bolo. Saplahá sang sadól ang mga matáas kag tampokán ang mga libaóng, agúd magsaláma ang dútà. Hoe (dig) something off the hillocks and fill in the hollows of the ground, that the land may become level. (see hapáw, báklis, gádras).
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Thud, thump, dump; to thud, thump, dump, land with a thud or thump (of falling objects). Nagsigábung ang bató sa pagtupâ sa busáy. The stone landed at the bottom of the precipice with a loud thump or crash.
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To measure and divide the harvest, particularly said of the measuring of threshed and winnowed rice in presence of the owner of the land and of his tenant or tenants, each one being allotted his share. Masúbay (magasúbay) kitá sa buás sang áton humáy. To-morrow we shall measure and divide our rice. Subáya ang humáy. Measure the rice-crop. (see sokób, takús, báhin, párte).
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(B) To quarrel, fight, squabble, scuffle, altercate, be at variance with, have a difference. Pírme gid sánda nagasumpákil. (Daláyon gid lang silá nagasinuáysúay). They are always fighting or quarrrelling. Ginasumpakílan nánda ang lúpà nga ánda paranublión. (Ginabaísan níla ang dútà nga íla palanublión). They are quarrelling over the land they inherited. (see súay, báis, bagâ).
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To buy land or fields. Tabáa ang íya dútà. Buy his land. Tinábà níya ang talámnan ni Fuláno. He bought N.N.'s rice-field. Magpatábà ka lang sing isá ka báhin sang ímo ulúmhan. Just sell part of your farm.
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