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1. vi. To swim, travel by sea.

• Examples:
  • ʻAuikekailoa (personal name), travel in the distant seas.
  • Ua ʻau ʻia nā kai loa, the distant seas were traveled.
• Related:
  • hōʻau Caus/sim.; To teach to swim, learn to swim; to swim with a drowning person; to douse, as clothes being washed; the man sets a kuʻu, drop net.
• References:
  • PPN kau .

2. vi. To jut out into the sea, as a land point; to project.

• Examples:
  • Aloha Makapuʻu, ʻau i ke kai, greetings to Makapuʻu (Point), reaching out into the sea.

3. n. Handle, staff, stem, stalk, shaft; bone of lower arm or leg.

• Examples:
  • ʻAu loa, long bones in arm or leg; long-limbed, long-shanked.
  • ʻAu kīpāpali (For. 6:61), shaft-like cliff slope.
• References:
  • See ʻau kī, ʻau lima, ʻau wāwae.
  • PPN kau .

4. n. Group (followed by a qualifier, as moku, waʻa.)

• References:
  • Cf. ʻaumakua.
  • PPN kau .

kikino, Handle, as of a bureau drawer, faucet, frying pan, toilet, etc. (preceded by ke); neck, as of an ʻukulele, guitar, etc.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
  • Niʻihau
• References:
  • Cf. kākai, pōheo.
  • See ʻau hoʻokuʻu wai o ka lua, ʻau kī wai, ʻau paikikala, ʻau pā palai, ʻau ʻume.
  • See also ʻukulele.

To swim, float on the surface of the water.

To swim.

Handle or helve of an axe. (Kanl. 19:5.) Staff of a spear (1 Sam. 17:7.) Handle of a sword (Lunk. 3:22.)