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kāwaʻa

/ kā.waʻa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n.v., To cast overboard from a canoe, as fish nets or as a victim to be executed at sea; a method of deep-sea fishing with nets.

2. interjection, Call of the curlew bird, believed to say: “I kāwaʻa, e holo, ua nui ke kai o ke aumoe, let's do canoe net fishing, sail, the sea is high at midnight.”

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kāwaʻa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Method of deep-sea fishing with nets.

kāwaʻa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Net used in deep-sea fishing; a deep water surround-net.

kāwaʻa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Voice of the curlew bird on Molokaʻi, which seems to say

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