Description:

The term hokky refers to harbours and bays, and also human-made basins and sinks for holding water or another liquid. It can be used more genenrally than the English word 'sink' for a place designed to pool water.

Noun:

As a noun, hokky refers to any of the above, a natural or artificial basin or tub, gnerally wider than it is deep, that holds water or another liquid.

If ti is desirable to talk about a personal bathtub, you could say 'ny atuinys hokky', but this would only be used if necessary to disambiguate, or for emphasis. Similarly you can talk about 'ny affe hokky', a public bath.

Verb:

As a verb, hokky is little used, but it can be used as a pali verb meaning to seek shelter, usually in an explictly nautical context in a literal harbour or bay, but seaside societies may be more likely to extend it metaphorically. It takes an absolutive subject seeking shelter, and the place where shelter is sought may be optionally introduced with the preposition 'e' and the thing shelter is sought from may optionally be introduced with the preposition 'ro'.