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1. nvt. To ward off, thrust aside, parry, fend off, bar, shield, defend, protect; to ignore a command or law, make void, nullify, prevent, repulse, resist, break, avoid, not adhere to; protection, defense, barrier, warding off, guard; curtain (Puk. 26.4); bib, partition, bar, railing, bulwark, shield, sheath, outer garment; division, canto of a song, scene of a play, division of song in a hula (preceded by both ka and ke).

• Examples:
  • Ua pale ka pilikia, the trouble is thrust aside, finished, over.
  • Pale i ke aʻo a ka makua, to thrust aside the teaching of the parent.
  • Pale ka leo (Kel. 61), voice is silenced [in death].
  • He lā ikaika ʻole a ke au i ke pale (For. 5:561), a day when the head current was not strong.
• Related:
  • Pale lua (Heb. 9.3), second veil or partition in the temple of Solomon.
  • Pule pale (Kep. 57), prayer asking for protection.
  • Pale ʻōlelo, disobey.
  • ʻIli pale o kāmaʻa, sole of shoes.
  • Pale hewa i ke kuke, avoid the duty, smuggle.
  • Ninaninau pale, cross-examination.
  • Mea pale, defendant.
  • Pale ka ʻaʻaka, crosspatch, cantankerous person; literally, cranky one who shoves.
  • Pale kauoha, to ignore, fail to carry out a command.
  • hoʻopale Caus/sim.; To fend or ward off; to separate, partition off; to defend in court; to disown.
    • Ma ka ʻaoʻao hoʻopale, on the side of the defendant.
• References:
  • PPN pale.

2. vt. To deliver, as a child.

3. nvt. Lining, as of a garment; leaf lining of a ground oven; flap of a malo; to cover, overlay, line; to form a barrier.

• References:
  • See pale hou.

4. n. Gunwale lashed to a canoe.

5. n. An interval of time in music, a bar in music which separates the staff into measures.

6. n. Presser foot on a sewing machine.

7. n. Apron, bib.

8. n., Barley (Hordeum 🌐 spp.), bran.

• Source:
  • English.
• Examples:
  • Hua pale, grain of barley.
• Related:
  • Also: bale, bare.