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1. Reduplication of kolo #1; to track down, investigate, seek evidence.

• Related:
  • hoʻokolokolo Caus/sim.; To try in court, judge, investigate; judiciary; trial.
    • Hoʻokolokolo moku, admiralty cases.
    • See hale hoʻokolokolo.
• References:
  • PPN tolotolo.

2. n. Any creeping vine.

3. vi. To gobble, rumble, grumble, scold.

4. See ʻānapanapa #2.

1. v., See kolo. To crawl towards one to give an account of himself.

2. To call chickens, turkeys, dogs, &c.

3. To be vexed, as a woman with her husband.

4. Hookolokolo. To call to account; to examine, as an accused person.

5. To decide respecting an accused person; to judge.

6. In modern times, to reckon with one; to look over his account; to keep an account with one. 2 Nal. 12:16.

7. To make inquiry into a matter. Eset. 2:23. NOTE.—Since the promulgation of written laws and the establishment of courts of justice, hookolokolo is used in connection with legal investigations; to try, &c., as in a court of justice.

1. s., The loud rumbling at the close of a peal of thunder.

2. Hookolokolo. A trial; a legal investigation; a judgment; a legal decision.

adj., Relating to a judgement, trial or decision.

1. n., The loud rumbling at the close of a peal of thunder.

2. n., Word used in calling domestic animals.

1. v., To seek evidence of; to look for proof.

2. v., To examine facts, incidents, etc., that lead to the substantiation of any truth.

3. v., To crawl toward another person in order to give an account of yourself.

4. v., To gobble, as a turkey.

5. v., To call, applied to beasts or birds.

6. v., To be vexed; to be irritated.

loud rumbling. Sea cavern, Lanai.