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1. vi. To run, sail, ride, go; to flow, as water; to run, as for political office; to slide, as an avalanche; fleet, fast; double time; landslide; to fare, progress.

• Examples:
  • Holo ka hana, fast work.
  • Ua holo ka ulu ʻana o ka pēpē, the baby is growing fast.
  • Ka mea e holo ana, whatever goes; however it goes or happens.
  • Pehea ka holo ʻana? How is it going? What fortune?
• Related:
  • Holo nui, to run fast, gallop.
  • hoʻoholo Caus/sim.; To sail, run; to cause to run, sail, run free, as a horse; to ride, as a horse; to add water, as to poi; to flush, as a toilet; to drive, as a carriage.
    • Hoʻoholo ʻāwīwī, to speed up, accelerate.
    • Hoʻoholo moa, to slide the moa dart.
    • Hoʻoholo kāmelo (1 Sam. 30.17), to ride camels.
    • Hoʻoholo i ka wai o ka lua, to flush the toilet.
• References:
  • Cf. holoholo, holo i mua, holo lio, holomoku.
  • PPN solo .

2. vs. Decided, determined, agreed upon, settled, approved, passed, enacted.

• Examples:
  • Ua holo kō kāua manaʻo, we have agreed.
  • Ua holo ke kumu kūʻai, the price is agreed upon.
• Related:
  • hoʻoholo Caus/sim.; To decide, determine, enact, pass, resolve, enforce, appraise, settle, conclude; to manage, as a business; decision, judgment. Cf. ʻōlelo hoʻoholo.
    • E hoʻoholo ʻia, be it resolved.
    • Ka hoʻoholo kūʻokoʻa, independent judgment.
    • Kōkua ʻia a hoʻoholo ʻia, seconded and carried.
    • E hoʻoholo ʻia e ka Mōʻī, be it enacted by the King.
    • Hoʻoholo i ke kānāwai, enforce the law.
    • Hoʻoholo hou ʻana i ka waiwai, reappraisal of property.
    • Hoʻoholo ʻia ka ʻōlelo hoʻopaʻi no ka hewa, convicted of an offense.

3. n. Noose.

4. n. Running hula step to the side; similar to kāholo except that the feet are not necessarily brought together

5. n. A long bundle, as of hard poi.

6. vt. To sew, as a break in a gourd calabash.

• References:
  • See holoholo #2, and kāholo #2.
  • PPN solosolo .

7. n. Holes in edge of a canoe, through which lashings were passed to hold a canoe cover in place.

• References:
  • Malo 135.

8. n. Diagonal pole or strut attached to the inner side of the roof framework and extending obliquely from the upper end of a rafter at one corner to the lower end of the rafter at the other corner.

9. n. Loss of a pebble in the kōnane game.

• References:
  • For. 4:57.

10. n. Hall.

• Source:
  • English

kikino/hehele, Run.

• Examples:
  • Holo ʻekolu haneli ʻīā. Three hundred-yard run.
• References:
  • See holoē, māmā holo, ʻai holo.

Noose.

Running hula step to the side. Similar to kāholo but feet are not necessarily together. (PE.)

To move swiftly.

to run, move, sail.

1. Verdict. In re Estate of Nakuapa, 3 Haw. 143, 144 (1869). 2. Running (as a land boundary). Hong Kim v. Hapai, 12 Haw. 185, 187 (1899). 3. Decision, determine, agreed upon, settled, approved, passed, enacted (PE). 4. A sheer place (SMK). 5. To flow, as water (PE). 6. A sudden descent of anything; a mass of rock and earth sliding down a mountain side (AP).