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nvi., To fish with a light pole offshore; pole fishing.

• Examples:
  • Kanaka paeaea, fisherman.
  • Hele kākou i ka paeaea, let's go pole-fishing.

2. nvi., A chant of supplication; to chant thus, perhaps so called as a means of “fishing” for something.

• References:
  • PH 149.

s. See PAEA. Hardness; severity; cruelty.

2. Conduct contrary to uprightness; ka hana ku like ole me ka pono.

3. The act of catching fish; a iho aku la i ka paeaea aweoweo. Laieik. 206.

4. The name of a species of fish.

5. Striking for or beckoning to one.

v. To strike fire, as with steel and flint. Laieik. 54.

adj. Hard; severe; unjust, as a man with his neighbors.

2. Smooth; unruffled, as a smooth sea. See KAIPAEAEA.

Smooth; unruffled, as a smooth sea. Syn: Kaipaeaea.

1. Hardness; severity; cruelty.

2. Conduct contrary to uprightness; ka hana ku like ole me ka pono.

1. A signaling with the arms.

2. The act of fishing with hook and line. Syn: Kaipaeaea.

To fish with hook and line; to angle.