Category: B

bayonet, sword.

hoe.

bicycle (also baik, wilwil)

• Baisikelbipo ol lapun save kolim samting i gat tupela wil em wilwil, tasol nau yumi save kolim long baisikel.
  Before, the older generation called a thing with two wheels a ‘wilwil’, but now we call it a bicycle.

pocket

• Putim mani long bak trausis.
  Put money in your trouser pockets.

1. bucket

• Tromoim i go long baket.
  Throw it in the bucket.

2. to treat with contempt

• Ol i tromoim em i go long baket.
  They treat him like rubbish.

rope (also paklain, rop).

• Baklain i paul nabaut.
  The rope is all tangled up.

1. the back, the other side

• Tupela i bin ranawe long baksait banis.
  Two men ran away to the back of the fence.
• baksait bilong lek calf

2. gossip tok baksait

• Ol meri i tok baksait long mi.
  The women are gossiping about me.

3. ignore givim baksait

bulkstore.

a ball (also bol).

• bal let a leather ball
• bal gumi a rubber ball, a ball that bounces
• kikbal a soccer ball, a football
• pamim bal to pump a ball, to kick a ball very high
• pulim bal to dribble the ball in soccer to move it along
• sutim bal to kick the ball a long way
• tromoim bal to throw the ball
• winisim bal to kick the ball high into the air

1. dove, pigeon, seabird

2. plane, aeroplane

• Balus i pundaun.
  The plane has landed.
• Balus i go antap.
  The plane takes off.
• masta bilong draivim balus pilot (also pailot)
• smok balus (smoke bird) jet airplane