HOO-LE-WA-LE-WA
v. See LEWA. To suspend; to swing back and forth.
v. See LEWA. To suspend; to swing back and forth.
adj. Moving; flying, as clouds that fly low; ina e kokoke mai ke ao, he ao hoolewalewa.
Moving; flying, as clouds that fly low; ina e kokoke mai ke ao, he ao hoolewalewa.
[Hoo and lewalewa, to hang or dangle.]
1. To cause to be suspended; to hang or swing loosely.
2. To attach to something above so that the thing attached shall swing back and forth.
Two-and-a-half-inch-mesh gill net suspended from the side of a canoe in deep sea fishing. (DK.)
E huli iā “hoʻolewalewa” ma Ulukau.
Search for “hoʻolewalewa” on Ulukau.