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kālewa

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vi., To move from place to place; to float or move with the wind, as clouds; to swing; to peddle (formerly of goods carried suspended and swinging on a carrying pole); to lie off, as a ship; unsettled, swinging, hanging, flying.

  • Examples:
    • ʻAho kālewa, trolling line.
    • Kālewa mauka o Mikilua (song), [mist] drifting by the uplands of Mikilua.
  • References:

2. n., Place near the luakini, temple, where the ruling chief and a few others stood apart from the multitude.

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KA-LE-WA

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. See LEWA. To float; to be floating, as any substance in the air.

2. To sail here and there on the water; to lie off and on, as a vessel.

3. To carry a weight suspended on a pole between two persons.

4. To be unsettled; to move often from place to place.

KA-LE-WA

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A swing; a pendulous machine for moving back and forward, like kowali.

2. A place near or in the luakini where the king and a few people were separated from the multitude.

KA-LE-WA

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj. Hanging; swinging, as a weight on a pole; flying, as clouds; lying off and on, as a ship.

Kalewa (kā'-lē'-wă), adj.

/ kā'-lē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. Hanging: swinging, as a weight on a pole.

2. Flying as clouds.

3. lying off and on, as a ship.

Kalewa (kā'-lē'-wă), n.

/ kā'-lē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A swing/?/ a contrivance for moving back and forward, like kowali.

2. A place near or in the makini /?/ where the king and a few people were separated from the /?/

Kalewa (kā'-lē'-wă), v.

/ kā'-lē'-wă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To float to be floating, as any substance in the air. Syn: Lewa.

2. To sail here and there on the water: to lie off and on, as a vessel.

3. To carry a weight suspended on a pole between two persons.

4. To be unsettled: to move often from place to place, Syn: Lewa.

kālewa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Place in the luakini where the king and a few others stood apart from the multitude.

ka’lewa

Haw to Eng, Judd/Pukui/Stokes (1943),

a swing: to float; to lie off and on; carry weight suspended between two.

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