Meaning
The tall, jointed, fast-growing cane that grows in dense clumps along Jamaican rivers and roadsides — put to a thousand uses: building and scaffolding, fencing, fish pots, furniture, rafting on the Rio Grande and Martha Brae, and cooking (a 'bamboo joint' of rice or a bamboo cup). At Christmas, a length of bamboo becomes a loud 'bamboo bazooka' fired with carbide. Endlessly useful and part of the landscape.
Examples
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Dem build di fence outta bamboo.
They built the fence out of bamboo.
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Wi raft dung di river pon a bamboo raft.
We rafted down the river on a bamboo raft.
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Christmas, dem buss bamboo joint.
At Christmas, they fire bamboo bazookas.
Origin
From Malay 'bambu'; the tall jointed cane, ubiquitous and multipurpose. See [[wiss]], [[thatch-palm]].
How it’s used
The tall jointed cane, used for building, rafting, and much more. See [[wiss]], [[wild-cane]].