"Sad-Ang" is a word in HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
sád-ang - (B) To place on high, put on;
hang up on a peg or nail, put a kettle on a
tripod, etc. Isád-ang ang ímo kálò sa
lánsang—or—sad-angí ang lánsang sang
ímo kálò. Hang your hat on the nail. (cf.
sáb-it, sáng-at).
sad-ang v [A; b6(1)] hook, snag s.t.
s.w.
Kinsay misad-ang sa sudlay sa ákung úlu?
Who stuck the comb on my head?
Gamay nga sanga ang íyang gisad-ángan sa kawit, He hooked the palm toddy container over a small branch.
sad-ang n in cockfighting, when a larger cock fights a smaller one, a manner of attaching the ga?
on the larger one to o?
set his advantage: the ga?
is placed higher than usual and the ring holding the ga?
is not tied around the cocks hind toe.
v [c1] attach the ga?
in this way.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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