kowali
Var. spelling of koali.
Var. spelling of koali.
v. To swing to and fro, as a rope for children to jump over.
s. A kind of play for children; swinging a rope. There were two kinds of kowali.
2. Name of a certain stick or buoy on which to float a fish-hook.
3. The name of a running vine; a convolvulus; also written koali.
1. A child's game of swinging a rope. (There were two kinds.)
2. A certain stick or buoy on which to float or hang a fish hook.
3. A stout trailing plant, a variety of convolvulus (Ipomoea insularis) common in the lower woods of the Hawaiian islands. Also known as kowali awahia.
1. To swing to and fro, as a rope for children to jump over.
2. [Ko, draw, and wali, mixed.]
1. To mix, to stir by using a drawing or rotary motion.
3. To mix very thoroughly; to stir until the component parts of any mixture are united in one consistent mass.
convolvulus. Land section, Hana, Maui.
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