kahau
1. n.v. The sport of hurling lightweight hau wood spears; to hurl such spears. Lit., hurl hau wood.
2. v. To catch edible locusts by striking (kā) the dew (hau) on bushes.
kāhaʻu
/ kā.haʻu /vi., To diminish, abate, lessen, as a storm or sickness.
- Examples:
- Ua kāhaʻu mai ka ʻeha, the pain has grown less.
- Ua kāhaʻu ka wai o ke kahawai, the water in the stream has subsided.
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KA-HAU
v. To abate, as the wind; pehea ka makani? Ua kahau iki mai, aole ikaika: e holo kakou.
2. To be diminished, as sickness; ua kahau iki mai kou mai, ua pale ka nui.
3. To abate, as a stream of water; kahau ka wai, kokoke pau.
KA-HAU
s. The name of a play or pastime; he kahau kahi hana.
Kahau (kā'-hā'u), n.
/ kā'-hā'u /[Ka, to hurl. and hau, a stick of the hau tree.] A game involving the hurling of light spears made of hau timber. These spears sometimes went whizzing through the air for a distance of two or three hundred fathoms.
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Kahau (kā'-hā'u), v.
/ kā'-hā'u /[Ka, to brush aside, and hau, dew.] To brush off the dew. This was practiced in trapping grasshoppers. Grasshoppers were used as food in ancient Hawaii.
Kahau (kā-ha'u), v.
/ kā-ha'u /1. To abate, as the wind; pehea ka makani? Ua kahau iki mai, aole ikaika: e holo kakou.
2. To be diminished, as sickness; ua kahau iki mai kou mai, ua pale ka nui.
3. To abate, as a stream of water; kahau ka wai, kokoke pau.
Kahau
/ Ka-hau /Gulch, Kamalō qd., south Molokaʻi. Literally, the hau tree or the dew.
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kāhau
A play or pastime. (A.) Sport of hurling lightweight spears of hau wood.
kāhaʻu
To abate, as the wind or a stream of water. See hālūlā.
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