nvi. Sound of tapping, as wood against wood; ticking, as of clock; thumping, trudging; rattling, as a window; crack of thunder; to tap, tick, thump, trudge, crackle, rattle; noisy, stormy. See ex., pilina 2. hoʻo.koʻele Caus/sim. (PCP to(o)kele.)
n.
1. Small land unit farmed by a tenant for the chief; to be worked as a kōʻele. Also hakuone.
2. Friday, so called because commoners worked on the chief's farm, called kōʻele, on this day. Any work for a chief. Also lā kōʻele and lā paʻahao. Kōʻele kālai waʻa, canoe-making for a chief.
3. Any variety of large, tough ʻopihi (the shells were used as scrapers and peelers). See ʻopihi.
4. Same as kōʻeleʻele, seaweeds.
5. A small pond, reserved for a chief, where fish could be kept alive until required.
6. Less desirable portions of meat or fish. Rare.
A tall man; equality; union. (And.)
s. A small division of land less than a kihapai; hence, a field planted by the tenants for the hakuaina or landlord; a garden belonging to the chief, but cultivated by his people.
2. A slight knocking or pounding; the sound of the kapa mallet at a distance.
3. The ticking of a watch.
4. A tall man.
5. Equality in numbers or strength.
6. A union of two things.
v. To strike; to beat; to tick, as a clock.
adj. Dry, as the ground; maloo; dry, as bones; koele na iwi o Hua ma i ka la, dry are the bones of Hua and his company in the sun. NOTE.—Hua was a chief whose people and himself died traveling in the sun.
1. To strike; to beat; to tick, as a clock.
2. To make a resonant sound, as that of the tapa mallet, ticking of a watch or the constant strokes of a smith's hammer.
a small division of land. Village, Lanai.
1. The sound of the tapa mallet as it hits the log on which the fabric is spread for beating.
2. Sound which comes of a quick audible beat, as the tick of a watch or the stroke of a tapa mallet.
3. A very tall person.
A small division of land, less than a kihapai; hence, a field planted by the tenants for the hakuaina (landlord); a garden belonging to the chief, but cultivated by his people.
Dry, as the ground; dry, as bones: koele na iwi o Hua ma i ka la, dry are the bones of Hua and his company in the sun. (Hua was a chief whose people and himself died while traveling in the sun.)
Land division, central Lā-naʻi. Lit., dark sugarcane.
Equality in numbers or strength. Kaulike, equitable, just.
To strike with a mallet.
Division of land smaller than kīhāpai and cultivated by a tenant for his chief. About the same as hakuone.
Tall man.
Slight knocking or tapping.
farm; garden for the chief: to strike, beat, tick as a clock.
1. Small land unit farmed by a tenant for a chief residing in an ahupuaa (see haku one). Territory v. Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., 41 Haw. 358, 362 (1956). 2. A koele was a piece of land seized by an aliʻi while under cultivation by serf or peasant. The peasant was required to keep it still under cultivation, but the land and the crops went to the aliʻi. The work devoted to its cultivation was called hana po ʻalima, because Friday was the day generally given up to work for the aliʻi. (DM). 3. Not a land division term, but refers specifically to a plot reserved for the exclusive use of the aliʻi; can be both wet and dryland areas under cultivation (ESH). 4. Small land unit farmed by a tenant for the chief; also hakuone; a small pond, reserved for a chief, where fish could be kept alive until required (PE). 5. A small division of land, less than a kīhāpai; a field planted by the tenants for the hakuʻāina (landlord); a garden belonging to the chief, but cultivated by his people (AP).
E huli iā “kōʻele” ma Ulukau.
Search for “kōʻele” on Ulukau.