One day, when Kauhi was playing, this young man placed himself on the opposite side, and as Kauhi ceased, took up the kilu and chanted the first of Kahalaopuna's meles.
The next night found them both at the kilu house, when the second of Kahalaopuna's songs was sung, and another angry discussion took place.
The object of the player was to throw his kilu so that it should travel with a sliding and at the same time a rotary motion across the matted floor and hit the wooden block which stood before the one of his choice on the side opposite.
It was a game of love-forfeits, on the same lines as kilu and ume.
THE HULA KILU The hula kilu was so called from being used in a sport bearing that name which was much patronized by the alii class of the ancient regime.
The game of kilu was played in an open matted space that lay between the two divisions of the audience--the women being on one side and the men on the other.
The game of kilu was often got up as a compliment, a supreme expression of hospitality, to distinguished visitors of rank, thus more than making good the polite phrase of the Spanish don, "all that I have is yours.
To return to the description of the game, the player, having uttered his vaunt in true knightly fashion, with a dexterous whirl now sends his kilu spinning on its course.
Ia Hauailiki e kilu ana me Poliahu, a i ka umi o na hauna kilu a laua.
The merry game of Kilu was going on at the time, and in a few moments his presence was forgotten in its absorbing delights.
Kulioe, one of the spirits, had been playing the kilu and had lost all his property to the daughter of Milu and one of her friends.
Then he commenced teaching the boy the kilu and the first dance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
