pule

Once everyone is present, Tūtū opens us with a pule, prayer.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

We pule again, and then we line up to scoop food onto our plates.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Here also is another pule hoo-noa, a prayer-song addressed to Laka, an intercession for the lifting of the tabu.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

In truth, the Hawaiians not unfrequently applied the term pule to compositions which we moderns find it hard to bring within our definitions of prayer.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

He can neither speake nor goe, nor eat, otherwise than he is trained to it: and, to be short, apt and good at nothing he is naturally, but to pule and crie.

From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

McGinnis clung to the hearing room door as police puled him away.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

The user contradicted Optus's claims the breach was "sophisticated", saying they puled the data from a freely accessible software interface.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2022

A raft rocked angrily as burly men puled on wires to tame it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2015

I maintain them, and the common sense of the world maintains them, against the preaching of all the Honeymans that ever puled from the pulpit.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

He makes a funny noise that sounds like swering and gets mad when his tale is puled.

From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

“Some sectors are puling back on hiring intentions because their broader economic outlook is starting to become less rosy or they have industry-specific concerns,” said Nick Bunker, head of research at Indeed’s Hiring Lab.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2022

“I think he got caught and now he’s puling an excuse out from under the bed,” Adams said.

From Washington Times ● May 23, 2020

BST16:14 69 min Coleman drills a long one from right-back towards Walters, puling left.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015

After the doors swung open, the crowd grew to more than 200 to collect their free issues with staffers puling titles from boxes on a wheeled, metal cargo crate by the counter.

From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2011

Nobody could doubt he spoke the truth; he was already old and wise when the most elderly among them was a blind hairless mite, puling and whimpering for a feed from its mother.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques