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stick tobacco, tobacco, cigarette

• Bubu man bilong mi i save smok tabak.
  My grandfather smokes stick tobacco.

tyre

• Taia bilong kar i slek.
  The car tyre is flat.
• spea taia spare tyre
• flat taia (flat tire) exhausted person

workmate, colleague (also wanwok).

person from same village

• I no gat sampela wanples bilong mi long Goroka.
  There are no people from my village in Goroka.

workshop

• Mipela i no gat wokmeri long dispela woksap.
  No women work in this workshop.

stevedore, wharfie.

1. world

2. wall

• wol bilong haus the wall of the house (also skin bilong haus)

ward

• Ol i wokim pinis wanpela nupela wot bilong pikinini long haus sik.
  They have completed a new children’s ward at the hospital.
• Ol i makim Peter i kamap kaunsil long wot bilong mipela.
  They voted Peter as Councillor representing our ward.

wool

• Sampela Hailans i save wokim wul long sipsip bilong ol yet.
  Some Highlanders are making wool from their own sheep.