1. nvt. To strike, hit, whip, beat, switch, smite, wield, thrash; to throw down, as a playing card with force; to trump; to play, as a card or kōnane pebble; to insert; whip, lash, stroke; to bat, as a ball; a blow. Hahau ikaika, to lambaste, wallop. Pepa hahau, playing cards. (PPN sasau.)
2. vt. To offer a prayer or sacrifice; to lay before. (FS 205.)
3. vt. To build, as by laying bricks.
v. See HAUA. To whip; to strike with a cane, stick, rod, or sword.
2. To scourge; to chasten. Puk. 5:14. Hahauia kona kua i ke kaula e ka haole, his back was whipped with a rope by a foreigner.
3. To inflict plagues. Puk. 32:35. To smite with blindness. 2 Nal. 6:18.
4. Hahau ai, to thrash, as grain.
5. To hew stones. 2 Nal. 22:6.
s. That which is put or laid upon, as a burden, or punishment; stripes.
Pertaining to punishment, as: laau hahau.
1. That which is put or laid upon as a burden, or punishment; stripes; a streak or welt caused by flogging.
1. To whip; to strike with anything: hahau ai, to thresh, as grain. See haua.
2. To scourge; to chasten: hahauia kona kua i ke kaula e ka haole; his back was whipped with a rope by a foreigner.
3. To inflict; to smite.
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