imu
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of imu
From Hawaiian
Example Sentences
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Cooke dug the requisite hole in the ground for an imu, or underground oven, to roast the kalua pig, as is tradition.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Their food was cooked then, as now, by steaming it in an imu or underground oven with heated stones.
From The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs
But when the imu was uncovered they found it filled with cooked food—enough to supply their needs until the rains came and new crops could be grown and harvested.
From Legends of the Wailuku by Herwig, Will
Thus on the third day from the disappearance of Hina Keahi those gathered about the imu saw a strange woman approaching from the direction of the sea.
From Legends of the Wailuku by Herwig, Will
The great heat of the fire in the imu withered the little life which was still left from the famine.
From Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by Westervelt, W. D.
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