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ʻauwaha

/ ʻau.waha / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. nvi., Ditch, furrow, trench, gutter, canal, channel; groove, as in a tapa beater; to notch, as tops of house posts (For. 5:643).

  • Examples:
    • Hāʻule nō i kāna ʻauwaha i ʻeli ai, fallen in the ditch he himself dug [caught in his own trap].

2. Outhouse, as for storing canoes.

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kikino, Geologic trench, as Aleutian Trench.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
  • Examples:
    • Ka ʻauwaha ʻo ʻAleuta. Aleutian Trench.

Nā LepiliTags: geology

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s. Au and waha, mouth. An opening of the ground, as a furrow; plowed ground. 1 Sam. 14:14: A ditch. Sol. 23:27. A channel; a place dug like a pit. Hal. 7:15. He lua loihi i eli ia a puni ke kihapai, a long pit dug around the garden. See AUAUWAHA.

v. To make a groove in wood; to cut forked, like the foot of a rafter on a Hawaiian house.

2. Hoo. To make a ditch or furrow, i. e., to plow. Iob. 1:14; Mik. 3:12.

Auwaha (ă'u-wā'-ha), n.

/ ă'u-wā'-ha / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Au, furrow, and waha, mouth.] An opening of the ground, as a furrow; plowed ground; a ditch; a channel; a place dug like a pit: He lua loihi i eli ia a puni ke kihapai, a long pit dug around the garden.

Auwaha (ă'u-wā'-ha), v.

/ ă'u-wā'-ha / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To furrow; to make a groove in wood; to cut forked, like the foot of a rafter on a Hawaiian house.

To cut forked, like the foot of a rafter on a Hawaiian house. (A.)

furrow, ditch, channel.

1. A ditch, furrow; channel (PE). 2. Trench or place dug pit like (HE) (T) (PE). 3. An opening of the ground, as a furrow; plowed ground, a ditch; a channel; a place dug like a pit (AP).

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