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Pō.ʻalima
1. nvs. Friday. Lit., fifth day.
2. nvi. Work on the chief's plantations, so called because this work was done on Fridays; the chiefs' plantation where the people worked on Fridays; to work thus (For. 5:709). ʻAʻole i Pōʻalima ʻia mamua, not used as a Pōʻalima before.
Poʻalima
kikino, Friday.
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PO-A-LI-MA
s. Po and lima, five; the fifth. The name of the fifth day (night) of the week, Friday. Hawaiians counted by nights rather than by days. See Po. I ka 21 o Augate oia ka Poalima, the 21st of August, that was Friday.
2. The name of a religious meeting on Friday of each week, formerly very generally attended by the people throughout the Islands.
Poalima (pō'-ā-lī'-ma), n.
/ pō'-ā-lī'-ma /[Po. night, and lima, five; the fifth.] The fifth day (night) after Sunday; that is, Friday: 1 ka 21 Augate oia ka Poalima. the 21st of August, that was Friday.
2. A religious meeting on Friday of each week, formerly generally attended throughout the islands.
Pōʻalima
Fifth day of the week. Kōʻele, a work day for com moners.
pōʻalima
- Term used for land farmed by tenants for aliʻi one day in five. Later term used for koʻele or hakuone because tenant was obliged to labor for a chief on Fridays. Payment of a portion of the products of the land held by them to the king as a form of taxation. Territory v. Bishop Trust Co., Ltd., 41 Haw. 358, 362 (1956).
- Patches worked on Friday. Hapai v. Brown, 21 Haw. 499, 503 (1913).
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