Definitions
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- n. A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A canoe or ship.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were four or five Tahitians I knew here who remembered the amuraa maa of the sick man, who had his own schooner, his pahi tira piti; but only Ori retained the deep, though misty, impression made by a meeting of hearts in warmest kinship.
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Both the 'ar'ia and the pahi were propelled by a huge' i'e, or mat sail of pandanus-leaves shaped like a leg of a fat hog.
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Et Libella aliqua fi ex. pahi claudicachiiuthi |::
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"The pahi was eighty feet long, broad in the middle, very carefully and neatly planked over inside, forming a rude bulkhead or inner casing, and had a lofty carved stem rising into one or two posts, terminating in a human form.
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"Maru," said the chief, when we sat on the mats at late supper after a return from the lagoon, "it is a pity you were not here when the Tahitians had their 'ar'ia and pahi, our large canoes for navigating on the moana faa aro, the landless sea.
chained_bear commented on the word pahi
"...a very large two-masted double-hulled canoe with a broad platform or deck overlapping the hulls with a thatched house upon it... The vessel was very like what Captain Cook called a pahi."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 295
February 23, 2008