vt. To stuff with food, fatten, hence to make a favorite; to attract fish by chumming, as with decayed pork; to mash to a pulp, sometimes said of tapa particles or cloth beaten into tapa as it is being prepared. Cf. palu. Kūpalu manō, to chum sharks; shark bait (said also of human taboo breakers thrown into the sea).
v. To stuff with food; to give a person or animal as much as he can eat.
2. To fatten; to nourish; to feed highly. Dan. 1:5. Hence,
3. To make a favorite of one.
4. To pound and beat out, as kapa.
1. Material used to attract or entice.
2. Lure.
1. To stuff with food; to give a person or animal as much as he can eat. To fatten; to nourish; to feed highly. Hence,
2. To make a favorite of one.
3. To prepare the bark for kuku or the manufacture of tapa by causing it to become soft and malleable.
To stuff with food, fatten.
To fish by distributing bait among fishes; chumming; to attract fish by chumming, as with decayed pork.
To mash kapa particles to a pulp in preparation for beat- ing them into kapa.
to stuff with food; to make a favorite.
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