1. nvi. A game in which player and opponent sat with legs crossed and tried to unseat each other; to play this game. (For. 4:35.)
2. nvi. A game in which one boy sat astride the back of another who was down on all fours; to play this game. (Malo 233.)
3. A tapa pattern said to have its surface raised in ridges like corduroy. (AP)
v. See HONU, terrapin. To play the terrapin; a play where people crawled on all fours like terrapins.
[Freq. of honu, a terrapin.]
1. An ancient game where people crawled on all fours like terrapins.
2. A pattern of tapa having the surface raised in ridges like corduroy.
To play the terrapin or honuhonu game.
To swim with hands only, feet being interlocked; to crawl like a turtle. Players wrestled while seated, as in hākōkō noho.
E huli iā “honuhonu” ma Ulukau.
Search for “honuhonu” on Ulukau.