1. nvs. Friday. Lit., fifth day.
2. nvi. Work on the chief's plantations, so called because this work was done on Fridays; the chiefs' plantation where the people worked on Fridays; to work thus (For. 5:709). ʻAʻole i Pōʻalima ʻia mamua, not used as a Pōʻalima before.
kikino, Friday.
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s. Po and lima, five; the fifth. The name of the fifth day (night) of the week, Friday. Hawaiians counted by nights rather than by days. See Po. I ka 21 o Augate oia ka Poalima, the 21st of August, that was Friday.
2. The name of a religious meeting on Friday of each week, formerly very generally attended by the people throughout the Islands.
[Po. night, and lima, five; the fifth.] The fifth day (night) after Sunday; that is, Friday: 1 ka 21 Augate oia ka Poalima. the 21st of August, that was Friday.
2. A religious meeting on Friday of each week, formerly generally attended throughout the islands.
Fifth day of the week. Kōʻele, a work day for com moners.
1. Term used for land farmed by tenants for aliʻi one day in five. Later term used for koʻele or hakuone because tenant was obliged to labor for a chief on Fridays. Payment of a portion of the products of the land held by them to the king as a form of taxation. Territory v. Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., 41 Haw. 358, 362 (1956). 2. Patches worked on Friday. Hapai v. Brown, 21 Haw. 499, 503 (1913).
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