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1. nvt. Knife, flint; to skin, as cattle. (PCP pa(f,s)i.)

2. To stand on edge. (And.)

Haku kā pahi. Paleolithic, in anthropology. Ke au haku kā pahi. Paleolithic age, period.

s. A knife; any cutting instrument of the knife kind; pahi kaua, a sword; pahi pelu, a jack-knife, &c. See the compounds.

s. In Tahitian, a canoe or ship; no ka mea, aia malaila (ma Tahiti) ka waa nui, he pahi ka inoa. D. Malo 3:20.

v. LIT. To knife, i. e., to cut a piece of meat thin as a knife; e oki lahilahi i ka io.

2. To stand up on edge.

3. E kulepelepe, e hoolepe.

Pahi (pā'-hi), n.

/ pā'-hi / Parker Haw to Eng,

1. A knife; any cutting instrument of the knife kind: pahi kaua, a sword; pahi pelu, a jack-knife.

2. [Tahitian.] A canoe or ship: no ka mea, aia malaila (ma Tahiti) ka waa nui, he pahi ka inoa. D. Malo, Hawaiian Antiquities, chap. 3, verse 20.

Pahi (pā'-hi), v.

/ pā'-hi / Parker Haw to Eng,

1. Lit. To knife, that is, to cut a piece of meat thin as a knife: e oki lahilahi i ka io; e kulepelepe, e hoolepe, to cut thin.

2. To stand up on edge.

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