"Balasbas" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
v. /MANG-:-AN/ to trim, e.g. a log, bamboo, etc. Binalasbasan na daydiay pinukan mo nga kawayan. He trimmed the bamboo that you felled.
v. /MANG-:-AN/ to whip, beat, hit with a stick, a branch of a tree, etc. Saan mo nga balasbasan ta kabayo. Don’t whip that horse.
balásbas - Oblique, diagonal, not vertical
or horizontal, slanting; to be, become or
make diagonal, etc. Ang balásbas dílì
tíndog. What is oblique is not vertical.
Balasbasón mo ang pagtakúd sang láso sa
ákon báyò. Fasten the ribbon obliquely
across my jacket. Walâ níya pagtadlungá
ang pagarádo, kóndì ginbalásbas níya. He
did not plough straight across the field, but
diagonally, from corner to corner.
Ibalásbas iníng láso sa pakô sang ákon
báyò. Put this ribbon aslant across the
sleeve of my jacket.
balasbas v {1} [AN; cP] go along parallel to s.t.
Ibalasbas (ipa-balasbas) pagdala ang káhuy sa asíras, Go along the sidewalk when you carry the wood.
{2} [A; c1] put s.t.
in a row parallel to s.t.
Ibalasbas (balasbása) ug tanum ang kapáyas sa ímung kural, Plant papayas along your fence.
n ornamental planted along walks ( = atay-átay.
see atay.
)
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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