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(Sp. tela) Dress-goods, stuff, cloth, clothing material, etc. (See tehído, talabasón, heneró).

(Sp. tejido) Cloth, stuff, textile, texture, woven materials, dress-goods. (see hinabúl, téla, heneró, balayoón, nalaugón).

See téla. Tíla bordáda. Embroidered cloth.

(Sp. carretela) Cart, bus, two-wheeled vehicle for passengers and freight.

The pole that passes through the end of the web and is fastened by ropes to the body of the weaver in a primitive kind of weaving without the use of a loom. Nowadays nearly every household has a loom, called tidál or terál, a corruption of the Sp. telar. (see átip, purogían).

To pull upwards, to raise, lift, hoist, draw or pull aloft. Batáka ang bálde, ang bayóng, etc. Draw or pull up the pail, the bamboo water-container, etc. Batáki akó sing kawáyan. Pull up a bamboo for me. Ibátak akó ánay siníng sáko. Kindly lift this sack for me. Binatákan nía ang atóp sing sin. They hauled up to the roof some sheets of zinc. Batáki (pabatáki) ang bátà sang íya nga dungán, agúd magáyo. Raise (have raised) the child's tutelary ghost or genius, that it may get well. (This is a superstitious phrase).

Contemporaneousness, state of being together or of happening at the same time, or of being a contemporary. Also: Tutelary spirit, genius, believed in by the superstitious. (see dúngan, dungán).

A kind of spirits or tutelary deities supposed by the credulous to have charge over whole towns and districts.

(Sp. telar) Loom, weaving loom as found in nearly every house throughout the Philippines.