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1. vt., To beat, as tapa.

• References:
  • PPN tutu.

2. n., Beam, as of a house; stick, as used to support and distend a net.

• References:
  • PCP tutu.

kikino, Rim of basket, in basketball.

• Source:
  • Dic., ext. mng.
• Examples:
  • Lewa liʻiliʻi akula ʻo David Robinson ma ke kuku ma hope o kāna ʻūpoʻi ʻana. David Johnson hung onto the rim a little while after dunking the ball.
• Related:
  • Also: hao.
• References:
  • See hīnaʻi, hupa.

1. v., See ku, to strike; to hit. To strike; to beat, as in pounding kapa; ua kukuia ke kua me ka pulu kapa i ka hale.

2. See ku, to stand. To be or to stand perpendicularly, as a precipice; to stand before one; ua hele mai nei e kuku i mua ou.

3. To rise up, as a thought, in the mind; nolaila, kuku mai la kahi manao iloko o’u.

4. To sweep; to brush away, as dirt.

5. To be high; to excel; to be eminent.

6. Hookuku. To be filled, as with food; to surfeit. Sol. 25:16.

1. s., The operation of beating out kapa.

2. A rising or standing up; nana aku la oia i ke kuku o na opua, he saw the long clouds standing erect. Laieik. 48.

3. The name of an unclean bird. Oihk. 11:16. Eng. The cuckoo.

4. The thorn bush.

5. A small pricker that fastens readily upon clothes.

1. adj., Standing thickly together, as trees; laau kuku, a thicket. 1 Sam. 13:6.

2. Having many sharp points; laau kuku, thorns; prickly bushes. Nah. 1:10.

3. Standing erect; rising up.

1. adj., Crowded; standing thickly together.

2. adj., Thorny; prickly; having many sharp points: laau kuku, thorns; prickly bushes.

n., The operation of beating out tapa.

1. n., A rising or standing up: nana aku la oia i ke kuku o na opua; he saw the rising of the opua or pointed clouds. Laieik. p. 48.

2. n., Name in common of thorns or spines.

n., Modern. The cuckoo.

1. v., To strike; to beat, as in pounding tapa; ua kukuia ke kua me ka pulu kapa i ka hale; the block with the fresh bark is beaten in the house.

2. v., [Ku, to stand.] To stand up together; to stand erect and stiff, used only in the plural: E kuku ae ka lehulehu; let the multitude stand up.

3. v., To rise up, as a thought in the mind.

4. v., To be agitated, vexed, perplexed: Kuku mai la na manao iloko o'u; thoughts are stirred within me.

v., To shake off; to remove something by shaking.