1. nvi.
• back,
• rear,
• burden,
• windward;
• to carry on the back, as a child.
see ʻōpeʻa kua, paoa₂. (Kua refers to a husband: cf. pilikua)
2. nvt.
• to hew, chop, chip, hack, dub, strike, cut out;
• to fell, strike down, as an image (Oihk. 26:30);
• anvil, as of a blacksmith or for beating tapa;
• house used for beating tapa.
3. n. beam, rafter.
4. n. yoke of a dress; back of a garment; ox yoke.
5. n. poles used in quilt making; the three unsewed quilt layers are placed on one another with the kua, poles, rolled into each end; the entirety is set over wooden horses and is stretched taut, so that the sewer may sew the layers together.
6. var. of akua, god, image, especially after -a (cf. hoa kua). cf. also Kealakekua [Ke-ala-ke-kua] (place name), the pathway [of] the images.
7. n. midrib, as of pandanus leaf.
8. n. third brew from kava.
9. n. sewer.
10. placename. gulch, Kamalō qd., south Molokaʻi. lit.: back. |
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| Ch.4 p.27 para.4 sent.1 | A no kēia ʻōlelo a ʻAiwohikupua, hele maila kekahi o nā pūʻali ikaika a ma ke kua o ʻAiwohikupua, ʻōlelo maila, “ʻĒ! Mai ʻōlelo aku ʻoe iā Ihuanu. | At Aiwohikupua 's words, one of Cold-nose's backers came up behind Aiwohikupua and said: "Here! do not speak to Cold-nose; |
| Ch.4 p.27 para.4 sent.4 | I ia manawa, huli aʻela ʻo ʻAiwohikupua a pale aʻela i ka mea nāna i ʻōlelo mai ma kona kua, hāʻule akula i lalo a make loa. | Then Aiwohikupua turned and gave the man at his back a push, and he fell down dead. |
| Ch.5 p.31 para.4 sent.1 | A hala ka puʻupuʻu a Ihuanu, e waiho koke aʻe ana ʻo ʻAiwohikupua i kāna puʻupuʻu, kū nō i ka houpo, hulā ma ke kua. | As the blow missed, Aiwohikupua instantly sent his blow, struck right on the chest and pierced to his back; |
| Ch.5 p.32 para.8 sent.3 | Hoʻokahi nō kuʻi iā Ihuanu, hulā pū ka puʻupuʻu ma ke kua, a ʻo ke kanaka nō kēia i make mai nei ʻo Ihuanu.” | Only one blow at Cold-nose and the fist went through to his back. This is the very man who killed Cold-nose." |
| Ch.10 p.52 para.2 sent.6 | ʻO ka ua hāʻawe kua, | In the rain with a pack on its back, |
| Ch.10 p.55 para.1 sent.5 | ʻO ka ʻale kua loloa o ka moana, | Over the long-backed waves of the ocean. |
| Ch.14 p.71 para.3 sent.1 | Iā Hauaʻiliki ma kūlana nalu i ka nalu i ea mai ai a kākala ma kona kua, i ia manawa, kaha maila ʻo ia i ka nalu. | When Hauailiki got to the breakers, just as the crest rose and broke at his back, he stood on its edge, |
| Ch.23 p.119 para.2 sent.2 | Akā, he mea haʻohaʻo naʻe ia i kona mau hoa ka uē ʻana, a ua akāka kāna kauoha “ua pono ʻole lāua” ma ka uē ʻana a Lāʻieikawai a me nā helehelena o ka pōʻino, no ka mea, aia ʻo Lāʻieikawai e kukuli ana i ka honua, a ʻo kekahi lima, ua peʻa aʻela ma ke kua, a ʻo kekahi lima, aia ma ka lae, a uē helu akula ʻo ia penei: | Now her counsellors marveled at her wailing and remembered her saying "some evil has befallen"; at her wailing and at her gestures of distress, for Laieikawai was kneeling on the ground with one hand clapped across her back and the other at her forehead, and she wailed aloud as follows: |
| Ch.28 p.154 para.5 sent.1 | “Ma ia hope iho, hoʻolohe mai ʻoukou, a i kuʻi ka hekili, ua ka ua, kaikoʻo ka moana, he waikahe ma ka ʻāina, ʻōlapa ka uila, uhi ka noe, piʻo ke ānuenue, kū ka pūnohu i ka moana, hoʻokahi malama e poʻi ai ka ʻino a mao aʻe, aia wau ma ke kua o nā mauna i ka wā mōlehulehu o ke kakahiaka. | "After this, hearken, and when the thunder rolls, the rain pours down, the ocean swells, the land is flooded, the lightning flashes, a mist overhangs, a rainbow arches, a colored cloud rises on the ocean, for one month bad weather closes down, when the storm clears, there I am behind the mountain in the shadow of the dawn. |
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