bamboo / the middle of a 3-tier ranking system

work, task, business: the job at hand / profession, business, trade: what one does to earn a living / studies, scholarship (the act of being a scholar), the arts

bamboo cutter

Alternative spelling of タケノコ

the mon, an old currency / a unit of length for measuring the size of one's foot (from the way that the mon coins would be lined up and used as a kind of inch marker) / a character, a letter

impart

thing (concrete, tangible) / (law) a corporeal object

interrupting a conversation; getting a word in edgeways

bamboo shoot

筍, 笋, 竹の子: bamboo shoot