1. vt., To claw, scratch, rub, grate, rasp, scrape.
2. n., Oilfish (Ruvettus pretiosus 🌐), caught in deep water; large, much prized for eating and used as a cathartic.
3. number, Eight, eighth (walu and other multiples of four are formulistic numbers; cf. -walu).
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Many. Cf. kūwaluwalu, makawalu, olowalu, puwalu. (Eight being a sacred number may have led to this extension of the meaning.)
hamani To scratch with claws, as a cat. Dic. Cf. waʻu.
v. To scratch, as a cat; to scratch, as a person with his fingers.
2. To rub; to rasp; to polish; to pinch.
adj., num. Eight; ka walu, the eighth. Oihk. 9:1. As a cardinal it is generally prefixed by a or e; as, awalu, ewalu, eight. Gram.§ 115:4.
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s. Name of a fish having very hard scales.
adj., Eight: ka walu, the eighth. As a cardinal it is generally prefixed by a or e; as awalu, ewalu, eight.
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1. An edible marine fish of the escolar family (Ruvettus pretiosus), having very hard scales.
2. A surgeon-fish (Hepatus xanthopterus.)
1. To scratch, as a cat; to scratch, as a person with his fingers.
2. To rub; to rasp; to pinch.
Way, Mānoa, Honolulu. Lit., to scratch or eight.
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