What is "awabi"

Usage examples of "awabi".

The Ama are a tribe whose girls dive for the awabi shells—that is our local abalone.

Big wooden tubs were lifted out and rushed up the beach to a kind of rickety market where, according to Tiger, the awabi were graded and priced.

There the seaweed is thick on the rocks and that is what the awabi feed on.

It is deep, about forty feet, but I can stay down for almost a minute, long enough to pick up two, three awabi if I can find them.

She broke surface beside the boat and held out two fat awabi to show him and then dropped them into the tub.

She announced that their haul was sixty-five awabi, which was quite wonderful.

Then she led him into the tiny bathhouse and poured hot and then tepid water over him from an awabi tub until all the salt was out of his skin and hair.

The Ama are a tribe whose girls dive for the awabi shells-that is our local abalone.

The pile of awabi was slowly growing in the tub and, amongst them, perhaps a dozen leaping fish.

As in olden times, he used a piece of awabi—ear-shell—stretching it tightly.

It was a symbol of long life—which was why it was stretched—and protection from harm: awabi does not decompose.

And as Sun Hsiung knelt just outside the threshold to her room, enrapt by the serenity of her wa, he felt a pulsing in the nether reaches of his lower belly, a kind of tidal pull that the Awabi divers spoke of where in a lake none should be.