Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of war-club in use in the Fiji and other islands, formed of a heavy bar of wood bent forward, and ending in a sharp beak surrounded by a sort of collar or ring of blunt points or nail-heads.
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Examples
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Re ile ra hatella taba ya hore ho hlokeha ho ya ka toka hore a fuwe sebaka sa ho ikarabela kgahlanong le diqoso tsohle tseo a rweswang tsona.
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Re ile ra gatelela taba ya gore go a hlokega go ya ka toka gore a fiwe sebaka sa go ikarabela kgahlanong le ditatofatšo ka moka tšeo di mo lebilego.
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No food to be got on account of M'toka's and Tipo Tipo's raids.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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It was entirely surrounded by M'toka's camp, and a constant fight maintained at the point where the line of stakes was weakened by the river running through.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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Mythbusters has proven that the average goldfish has a memory of at least thirty-five seconds. toka-chan Says:
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Taba ya bobedi, ke tlo bolelagao ka yona ke ya, tema eo Palamente e bapalago, mo go tliseng toka le tekano lefatsheng.
Speech by Obed Bapela on the State of the Nation Address Debate 2007
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Light brown and black-banded, every centimeter of the solid piece of toka root had been carved in relief.
The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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Charles Moikanyang, who covered the fall of apartheid, toka bullet in the thigh while on a story for the South African Broadcasting Corp.
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[Greek: adelphos], and the familiar "bone of my bone," etc. A very interesting word for "child" is Sanskrit _toka, _ Greek [Greek: teknon], from the Indo-European radical _tek, _ "to prepare, make, produce, generate."
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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_From the Japanese of the wife of the Mikado Sui-toka In
The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems Edward Powys Mathers 1915
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