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Huli | Search «pahee»: He 15 i loaʻa | Found 15.

1. vi., Slippery, smooth, as a surface; soft, satiny; to slide, slip, skid; sliding, slipping.

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2. n., Cleared area, bare dirt.

3. n., Spear throwing (FS 114–5); dart-throwing; sport of sliding a stick over a smooth surface; the dart itself. Buck describes the darts as from 34.5 to 67 inches (about 85 to 170 cm) long, tapering at one end, with the greatest diameter of from 1 to 1 1/2 inches (2.6 to 3.9 cm).

4. n., Shallow hole or grave, as for flexed burial.

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    • For. 5:571.

5. Same as pāheʻeheʻe, seaweed.

Nā Lepili | Tags: sports limu

v. Pa and hee, to slip. To slip; to slide, as the feet. Hal. 17:5. Hoo. To cause to slide; hence, to fall. Kanl. 32:35. To let or cause to flow, as blood; mai hoopahee koko.

2. To play at the game called pahee; ua pono ka pahee, no ka mea me ka ikaika nui e pahee, ai, a ua pono no ke kino ma ia paani.

s. Smooth cloth; silk.

2. The name of a game which consists in sliding a stick either on grass or gravel. See the verb.

3. Slipperiness; smoothness. Hal. 55:21.

4. A smooth place.

5. Name of a region on the side of the mountains next below the ilima.

adj. Smoothed; polished; slippery; shining, as a polished surface; smooth, as a person without hair. Kin. 27:11.

pahee

ʻaʻano | stative verb / pă-he'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Smoothed; polished; slippery; shining, as a polished surface; smooth, as a person without hair.

1. n., A game which consists in sliding on a stick or board.

2. n., A sliding on any smooth surface.

3. n., A small shrub resembling the ilima but not so high.

Nā Lepili | Tags: sports flora

1. n., Slipperiness; smoothness.

2. n., A smooth place.

v., To play at the game called pahee: ua pono ka pahee, no ka mea me ka ikaika nui e pahee ai, a ua pono no ke kino ma ia paani.

pahee

hehele | intransitive verb / pă-he'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

v., To slip; to slide.

Game that consists of sliding an implement on grass or gravel. See ihe paheʻe, moa paheʻe.

Land on the side of a mountain between the ʻilima and kula levels.

Green, cushion-shaped, solid seaweed (Dictyosphaeria versluysii). Also called līpaheʻe, līpaheʻeheʻe, līpahoe, pāheʻe. On Maui it is called līpāhoe.

Smoothed, polished, slippery; shining, as a polished surface. (Hal. 73:18.)

sliding; to slip.

1. Cleared area, bare dirt, shallow hole or grave (PE). 2. Pahee means slippery. Probably because a peculiar species of grass that grows in such places (DM). 3. Area below the ʻilima region (DM). 4. Area below the ʻāpaʻa (SMK).

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