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HuliSearch «kōʻieʻie»: He 8 i loaʻaFound 8.

1. n., Plaything, toy, used in water.

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    • FS 259.

2. nvi., Rapid current or what it carries; to rush, as water.

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1. n., A rapid current, sucking in and carrying off everything.

2. n., The things thus swept away.

3. n., Water sports; games played in water.

4. n., The stillness that precedes the turning of the tide.

v., [Ko, to draw, and ieie, a running or flowing, as of the movements of the tides.] To move with force, as a rapidly flowing tide or rushing stream.

1. v., To drive; to force; to push on; to urge over much. See koi.

2. v., To overflow; to rush here and there, as overflowing water; to drive on, but in the wrong road.

Fishpond, Kīhei, Maui. Ancient fishpond at Kalepolepo Beach in Kīhei. Ke Au ʻOkoʻa, a Hawaiian language newspaper, reported in December 1869 that Kamehameha I had ordered the pond rebuilt during his reign. Also known as Kalepolepo. Literally, rapid, rushing water or current.

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Toy or plaything thrown into a rapid current of water which either the current or the tide may return.

1. A section of rushing water (SMK). 2. Rapid current (PE). 3. To move with force, as a rushing stream (AP).

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