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1. n., Large triton conch or helmet shell (Charonia tritonis 🌐) as used for trumpets; any wind instrument, as horn, trumpet, cornet. The instrument may be distinguished from other pū by the qualifier hoʻokani, sounding.

• Examples:
  • Nā pū kiwi hipa ʻehiku (Iosua 6.4), seven trumpets of rams' horns.
• References:
  • PPN puu.

2. n., Gun, pistol.

• Examples:
  • I lalo pū, order arms [military command].
• References:
  • Cf. pū aloha.

3. n., General name for pumpkin or squash.

• Related:
  • Also: ipu pū, palaʻai.

4. n., Tree, cluster of several stalks, as of bananas, pandanus, or kava; clump, as of sugar cane (always precedes a noun).

• Related:
  • Also: ōpū.
• References:
  • PCP puu.

5. n., Head of octopus or squid.

6. n., Canoe endpiece, both fore and aft.

7. nvt., Coil of hair, topknot of hair; rope or line, as attached to sticks in an ʻōpelu net; rope attached to the front of an unfinished canoe to haul it to the shore; olonā string used in the game pū kaula; snotter holding the end of the sprit of a sail; to coil; to gather in, as sails; to form a topknot.

• Examples:
  • Pū i ka waʻa, ceremony during which a head craftsman prayed that the gods would protect the newly carved canoe hull as it was drawn from the forest to the sea; to attach a line to a canoe; such a line.
  • Kaulapa pū (For. 6:483), drag or towline.
  • Pū i ka lauoho, to form the hair in a topknot.

8. vi., To divide by lot: pebbles or seeds were placed under a tapa, and divided unseen into heaps, and the players drew to get the largest heaps.

• Related:
  • hoʻopū Caus/sim.

9. vi., To eat a little, share potluck, said in a humble invitation, as Mai kākou e pū ʻai, come and have a little food with us [take potluck].

• Examples:
  • Mai kākou e pū paʻakai, come and share a little salt with us [said disparagingly of the meat].

10. n., A variety of sweet potato.

11. vs., Inactive, sluggish, quiet, dejected, bored (often following noho).

• Examples:
  • ʻOia noho pū wale ihola nō ʻo ke aliʻi, the chief just sits quietly.
  • ʻŌkuʻu pū, to crouch dejected.
  • Kai pū, sea without animation; sea at midtide.
• Related:
  • hoʻopū Caus/sim.; To crouch, sit dejected and silent
• References:
  • Gram. 7.1.

12. particle, Together, entirely, completely, also with, together with.

• Examples:
  • ʻUla pū, entirely red.
  • Me ʻoe pū, same to you [as in reply to a good wish].
  • Like pū, exactly alike.
  • Noho pū, to live together, as without benefit of clergy.
  • ʻO au pū, me too.
  • ʻO kāua pū, so will I; you and I both.
  • Moku pū, broken completely.
  • Pau pū kāua i ka hoʻopaʻi ʻia, we'll be punished together.
• References:
  • Gram. 7.1.
  • PPN puu.

13. Probably a rare variant of puoho, startled.

• References:
  • GP 66.

kikino, Horn, a musical instrument.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• Related:
  • Also: pū hoʻokani.
• References:
  • See pū keleawe, pū koa, pū pihi, pū puhi uai, pū puhi Palani, pū ʻoʻohe.

hua hōʻailona, Abbreviation for pūkele (bushel).

End pieces, fore and aft.

To eat little and without relish.

The old conch shell (pū), which in early missionary days hung at chapel doors to summon the neighborhood to worship, is seldom heard now.

Any musical instrument that would make a large sound by blowing upon it; trumpet, conch shell, bugle. I na pū kiwi hipa ʻehiku, seven trumpets of ramsʻ horns. (Ios. 6:4.)

General name for pumpkin. See ipu pū. (NEAL 813.)

To sit with hands on knees; idle, indolent, lazy. (CMH.)

Variety of sweet potato. Its flesh is used as palu (bait) in feeding and attracting ʻōpelu in their breeding places. (NP 135.)

Most of this variety used as palu (bait) in feeding and attracting ʻōpelu in their breeding places offshore. (HP 139.)

Together, entirely, together with, also.