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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.