to strike by extending one’s arm, as in boxing or karate (as opposed to slapping or hitting by bringing the arm down, which is #ta); to puncture or drive an object through something; to hammer, strike, or beat something, as in mashing tubers to make a pudding; club

Feinberg 1977

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

Feinberg 1977

pestle

Lanyon-Orgill 1969

a hammer

Capell 1968

to strike at, knock at, hammer

Capell 1968

to pound, beat, knock

Lincoln 1977

to beat, as tapa

Pukui and Elbert 1971

to pound, punch, strike; to beat out, as metals; to churn, as butter

Pukui and Elbert 1971

pounder, mallet

Lieber and Dikepa 1974

to pound, beat

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

to hammer, pound

to crush, to smash food or betelnut (trans. sg.)

Böhm 1975

to crush, to smash food or betelnut (trans. pl.)

Böhm 1975

to pound, ram, beat, knock; pestle, pounder (for fern root, flax, etc.)

Williams 1971

to demolish, knock to pieces; to batter, dash; pestle, pounder

Williams 1971

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 knock, pound, mash (as in pounding kava root)

McEwen 1970

to knock, rap, scrabble

McEwen 1970

pegs driven into the outrigger of a canoe to secure it to the booms; to grind

McEwen 1970

punch, hit, strike; bump into; pound

Carroll and Soulik 1973

to punch

Allen and Beaso1975

a pounder, that which is used for pounding, or beating or mashing; a bumper, such as the bumper of a car; the act of pounding or beating to a mass or fine pieces; the act of slamming, the act of striking; a thump, a blow, a loud knock, a bump; to pound, to beat into fine pieces, to mash, to bruise; to slam or bang, as a door; to hammer, to ram, thrust or stike with anything impelled end-wise

Savage 1980

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

Savage 1980

to bump or collide, or strike against; to pound or bruise, etc.; to slam or bang; to hammer, etc.

Savage 1980

to beat, strike, pound, smash, destroy, blow down; to knock, as on a door; beater, pounder, as for #sogo (grated taro and coconut) pudding or for putting out a fire

Elbert 1975

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

give a blow or punch; knock, hit, strike; (of a nail) drive, hammer; (of a drum) beat; mash, beat into a pulp

Milner 1966

to pound (taro, etc.)

to rap, tap, knock (e.g. on a door); to hit or strike with something hard, to pound, grind, ram, or hammer; to punch, thump, strike with the fist

Churchward 1959

to knock or nail hard or roughly or without due care

Churchward 1959

pounder

to pound

club (generic, including all types of club)

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

to pound, knock, punch, hammer

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

to pound on something, knock on a door

Neumann 1951

to beat with a hammer

Blust n.d. (1971)

pound on

Warneck 1977