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1. nvt., To skin, peel, file, rasp, make a groove; to strip, as sugar-cane leaves from the stalk; furrow.

  • Examples:
    • Hole Waimea i ka ihe a ka makani (name song for Kamehameha I, Elbert and Mahoe 52), Waimea strips the spear of the wind [the wind refers to warriors, and the song describes their making of spears].
  • References:

2. vi., To squirm, twist, turn, fidget; to caress passionately.

Papa helu loliWehewehe Wikiwiki update log

Puka (usually of a perforation); lua (with a bottom); haka (breach).

Papa helu loliWehewehe Wikiwiki update log

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Papa helu loliWehewehe Wikiwiki update log

v. To curse.

2. To peel off; to skin; to flay.

3. To rasp; to file; to rub off.

4. To scratch or break the bark of a tree or skin of the flesh.

5. To notch the end of a spear; to make grooves, as in a kapa beater; hole ie.

s. A bruise; a scratch or break in the skin. See POHOLE.

puka, he lua.

Hole (hō'-le), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. That which results from the action of the verb hole, as a groove; a furrow made by rubbing one? thing upon another.

2. The motion made by the hands in rubbing the aulima on the aunaki to obtain fire.

Hole (hō'-le), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To curse; to abuse, as a drunken man.

2. To rasp; to file; to rub off.

3. To notch the end of a spear; to make grooves, as in a tapa beater; hole ie, furrow the ie or tapa stick.

Rasp.

h. he lua, he nahae, he puka, he hamama.

pu'kă; (pit), lu'ă; (cave), (ke) ā'nă; (tear), năhaě.

to groove.

He puka; he lua.

E huli iā “hole” ma Ulukau.

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