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vs. Strong. Cf. ikaika, lima ika.

1. nvi., To drift upon, strike against; to turn aside from a straight course; flotsam and jetsam.

  • Examples:
    • Paʻa ʻia iho i ka hoe uli i ʻole e īkā i ke koʻa, grasp the steering paddle lest [we] strike the coral head.
    • Īkā ihola lākou i lalo i kahi wiliau, ili ihola ka moku (Oih. 27.41), and falling into a place where two seas met [currents mixed] they ran the ship aground.

2. n., Sides of taro patch or garden.

  • Rare

Nā LepiliTags: rare

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1. v., To float ashore, as a drowned person; a ao ia po, ika ia aku la ia kanaka iuka o Ukumehame; to be driven on shore by the surf.

2. To be turned aside, as a vessel by the wind aud current. Oih. 27:41.

3. To fall off, as a vessel before the wind.

4. To run before the wind. Hooika. To be thrown up on the bank of a kalo patch.

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ika

kikinonoun / I-KA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., Name of the sides of a kalo patch, or of a mala where the grass is thrown; oia ka mea e malu ai na ika. i lilo ole ka mea kanu a kekahi i kekahi.

Nā LepiliTags: kalo

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ika

ʻaʻanostative verb / I-KA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj., Drifting; inclined to fall off before the wind; making leeway.

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ika

ʻaʻanostative verb / ĭ'-kā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Carried along by a current; floating; drifting.

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ika

kikinonoun / ĭ-kā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., Goods cast or swept from a vessel into the sea and found floating; flotsam; jetsam.

2. n., The sides of a taro patch, or of a mala (garden) where the grass is thrown.

Nā LepiliTags: kalo

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ika

heheleintransitive verb / ĭ-kā' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. v., To float ashore; to be driven on shore by the surf.

2. v., To be turned aside from a straight course, as a vessel by the wind and current; to drift.

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Inclined to fall off before the wind; to drift, be driven by the wind.

1. Sides of a taro patch (PE). Also, kuāuna (ESH). 2. Term used for boundaries marked along edge of a plot where grass and weeds were thrown out (ESH).

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