Dictionaria -

A multifunctional Teop-English dictionary: Example 2124

Word senses:

hiovu (stick for) husking coconuts; (stick for) catching sea-sausages
hovu husk a coconut; remove the outer covering of a coconut
kahu scrape something off, for example the bark of the breadfruit tree or of vines to pull out the fibres below the bark and use them to make the strings for a fishing net; carve

Murinae eara repaa kahu ee bona maa hum hiovu mene hovu iobo ge hovu overe.

Then we carve the sticks for catching sea-sausages or husking coconuts from it. (i.e. the palm called miimiana)

Source: Sii 39W 043