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kidlo 1comm. any scarecrow objects, used to frighten rice birds. [Clothing, pieces of plastic, or cans are connected to strings that can be pulled to move the object or make noise.] Dakol kidlo an intattayun mih payo. We have hung many things in our fields to scare rice birds. Sim: taktakut. (sem. domains: 6.2 - Agriculture.) 2trans. to place objects in rice fields to frighten rice birds. Kidlowam nan mamuhbun page ta adi tiptipon nadan buding. Place things to scare away rice-birds in the places where the rice-grains are blooming so that they will not suck them. ‑an/‑in‑ ‑an.

taktakut (sp. var. tattakut) comm. scarecrow, made of old clothes, old hat and grasses. Dakol di nitattayun hi taktakut nadah papayo. There are a lot of scarecrows in the ricefields. Sim: kidlo. (sem. domains: 3.4.2.4 - Afraid.)