to pound something, as in the preparation of bark cloth or pandanus leaf for making mats

Feinberg 1977

pestle

Lanyon-Orgill 1969

to pound, beat, knock

Lincoln 1977

to beat, as tapa

Pukui and Elbert 1971

to pound, beat

to tap, as with a tattooing needle; to strike with the finger; to bump, of heads

to hit, strike; hammer, pound, mash; knock; bump against, hit against

Bugenhagen and Bugenhagen 2007

to beat with fist, thump

Codrington and Palmer 1896

to hammer, hammer wooden pegs

to pound, crush, as yams in #tambili mortar

Fox, C. 1955

to punch

Allen and Beaso1975

to beat, to strike repeatedly, to break, to bruise; to thresh, as wheat

Savage 1980

to tap, as to make the sound of beating a tapa anvil or a sounding board

Elbert 1975

tapa-beating anvil

Elbert 1975

a large stick used for mixing native puddings; a small pestle used for mixing betel nut in a mortar

Waterhouse 1949

(of mulberry bar) to beat on a special anvil

Milner 1966

to pound (taro, etc.)