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In South India, it’s a fancy word for a big-ass machete. Farmers use it to hack coconut trees until they’re barely standing and then chop open the coconuts like they’re mad.
My uncle used a laang to cut down a coconut tree and then yelled at the coconut for being stubborn.
The laang was so big, it looked like it could fight a cow.
I tried using a laang to cut coconuts, and now my hands look like they’ve been tortured.