"Takyab" is a word in CEBUANO
takyab v [A; c] {1} cast a small fishing net into the sea, usually in the shallows.
Dakung duut sa isdà ang íyang gitakyában sa láya, He cast the net on a big school of fish.
{2} throw s.t.
on and over s.t.
as if casting a small net or throw s.t.
with a similar motion.
Ákung gitakyában ug hábul ang káma, I spread a blanket over the bed.
Ákù ta kang takyában sa tahup ug anhà ka lingkud dihà, The cha?
will fall o?
on you as I winnow it, if you sit there.
{3} flap s.t.
to shake s.t.
o?
it.
Gitakyab níya ang sinínà kay abugun kaáyu, She flapped her dress because it was so dusty.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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Pigs don't look very smart to me. Sure, they are. You ever see a sow try to make a silk purse out of a farmer's ear?
A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1291
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