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HuliSearch «makiki»: He 7 i loaʻaFound 7.

1. Same as kiki, to peck. Makiki moa, cockfight.

2. n. Type of stone used as weights for octopus lures (Malo 19), and for adzes.

s. Name of a kind of soft porous stone; maika stones were sometimes made of them.

Makiki (mā'-kī'-kī), n.

/ mā'-kī'-kī / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A stone ax used in paying a penalty. (Obsolete.)

name of a kind of soft porous stone. Land section, Oahu.

Place, street, heights, stream, valley, and section 20 of Honolulu (map 6), probably named for a type of stone used as weights for octopus lures.

Calabash for water. (A.)

Soft, porous stone used in making the maika, sinkers for octopus lures, adzes.

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