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See pae, cluster, and pae, to land.

v. See PAE, to go ashore. To cause to arrive at land; to go ashore from a canoe, boat or vessel.

2. To float ashore, as anything at sea.

3. To throw up on a bank of a kalo patch.

hoopae

/ ho'o-pā'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Hoo and pae, to float ashore.]

1. v., To cause to arrive at land; to go ashore from a canoe, boat or vessel.

2. v., To float ashore, as anything at sea.

3. v., To build up on a bank of a taro patch.

4. v., To run upon a beach, as a canoe. A modern application of the word ia to smuggle.

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To go ashore from a canoe, boat, or vessel; to beach a canoe.

to run canoe up on beach.

To build up an embankment, row, cluster (PE).

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