"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.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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