1. vs. To float back and forth; unstable, varying, changeable; swinging, as a ship at anchor. He pūlewa ka ʻāina (chant) the land is unstable (PCP puulewa.)
2. vs. Weak, hungry, feeble.
3. Same as hālili, sun-dial shell.
4. n. A kind of stone from which sinkers were made for octopus hooks. (PEP puurewa.)
v. See LEWA, swinging. To be changeable; to turn this way and that; to float here and there, as one of unstable opinion; to be varying; to be tremulous, as a quagmire; he pulewa ka aina, he naka Hawaii.
[Lewa, swinging.] To be changeable; to turn this way and that; to float here and there, as one of unstable opinion; to be varying; to be tremulous, as a quagmire; to be unfixed.
To be changeable; to turn this way and that; to float here and there, as one of unstable opinion; swinging, as a ship at anchor.
swinging at anchor.
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