1. n.v., To cast overboard from a canoe, as fish nets or as a victim to be executed at sea; a method of deep-sea fishing with nets.
2. interjection, Call of the curlew bird, believed to say: “I kāwaʻa, e holo, ua nui ke kai o ke aumoe, let's do canoe net fishing, sail, the sea is high at midnight.”
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s. The voice of a bird on Molokai which seems to say, "i kawaa, e holo, ua nui ke kai o ke aumoe."
s. The name of a species of fish net; he upena kawaa.
1. A method of putting to death by throwing the victim overboard from a canoe far out at sea.
2. A method of deep sea fishing which consists in drawing the nets by movements of canoes controlled by the fishermen.
3. The song of a bird, probably the bristle-thighed curlew, which seems to say: "I kawaa, e holo, ua nui ke kai o ke aumoe.
1. To cast overboard from a canoe into the ocean.
2. To sacrifice or execute by throwing overboard far out at sea.
Bay, Honu-ʻapo qd., south Hawaiʻi. Lit., the canoe.
Method of deep-sea fishing with nets.
Net used in deep-sea fishing; a deep water surround-net.
Voice of the curlew bird on Molokaʻi, which seems to say
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