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nvt., Thatching; to thatch.

  • Examples:
    • Ako ʻia ko hale, the house is thatched [if during an emergency it was impossible to erect a temple, the priest merely gestured that the house was completed and thatched].
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1. vt., To cut, shear, clip, trim, as hair; to break or pluck, as flowers.

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2. nvs., Itch, throat irritation, venereal disease.

  • Figuratively, lust.

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v. To cut, as with scissors; to cut, clip off; to crop off. Ezek. 17:4.

2. To pluck, as flowers or fruit. Hal. 80:12. To shear, as sheep. Kin. 31:19. To cut off, as hair. Ier. 7:29. Ua ako ia ka lauoho; ua ako ia i ka hulu o ka hipa; ua akoia ka lau o ka nalu i ka makani.

3. To clip off, as the wind the top of the surf.

v. To thatch; to cover a house with thatch; ua akoia ka hale.

s. The art of thatching; ua pau ka hale i ko ako; mea ako hale, a house thatcher; mea ako hipa, a sheep shearer.

s. Name of a disease of females of bad character; he ako na wahine hana hewa; he ako ka mai o na wahine hana hewa.

Ako (ă'-kŏ), n.

/ ă'-kŏ / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. The art of thatching: Ua pau ka hale i ka akoia; mea ako hale, a house thatcher.

2. An infectious venereal disease. In women it is called ako; in men. waiki.

Ako (ă'-kŏ), v.

/ ă'-kŏ / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To cut, as with scissors; to cut, clip off; to crop off.

2. To pluck, as flowers or fruit; to shear, as sheep; to cut off, as hair: Ua akoia ka lauoho; ua akoia i ka hulu o ka hipa; ua akoia ka lau o ka nalu e ka makani.

3. To thatch; to cover a house with thatch: Ua akoia ka hale.

Channel, point, Kūʻau, Maui. During the early 1900s, an elderly man named Ako lived on Kūʻau Point. Fishermen named the point and a narrow channel through the rocks on the point after him. Also known as Kūʻau to windsurfers.

Veneral disease.

Infectious venereal disease. Called ʻako in women, waikī in men.

I. he kulanakauhale no Asera, Lun. 1:31. Ma ka Oih. 21:7, ua kapaia oia o Petolemai, mamuli o kekahi o na Petolemi, nana ia i hoomahua a hoonani ai no hoi. He inoa e ae nae o ka poe Kerusade i kau ai maluna o ua kulanakauhale nei, oia o Akere. I keia wa e noho nei, o Aka ka inoa i ka,poe Tureke. Ma ke kaua Kerusade, ua hoopuni pinepine ia, a o ke kulauakauhale pakaua hope ia i lawepioia e na Tureke, mai na Kristiano ae.

II. o ke ako i ka poo, oia ke oki i ka lauoho, 2 Sam. 14:25, 26; Ez. 44:20.

to clip, cut, pluck.

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