2. (modifier) lookout.
E whakanohohia tētahi tangata i runga i te taumata matira i ngā rā katoa hei matira ki te tangata haere, ki te ope taua rānei (JPS 1928:172). / A man was stationed on the lookout summit every day to watch the travellers, or for war parties.
3. (noun) fishing rod.
He mea here te tautau ki te matira mānuka (Te Ara 2011). / The bob was tied to a mānuka rod.
See also tautara
4. (noun) lookout.
Ka whakanōhia ahau hei matira mō tō mātou rōpū. / I was stationed as a lookout for our group.
Synonyms: kaititiro
2. (noun) victim, slain warrior, person slain in battle.
He maha hoki rātau e noho whanaunga ana ki ngā ngohi o ngā tukinga a Te Kooti (TTR 1990:387). / Many of them were related to victims of the raids by Te Kooti.
3. (noun) troop, company (of fighting men) division, column.
Ka tū mai anō hoki ko ngā ngohi o Ngāti Ruanui me ērā atu iwi o Taranaki hei tuarā mō Ngā Rauru (TTR 1990:148). / Ngāti Ruanui and other Taranaki tribes also raised troops to support Ngā Rauru.
2. (noun) angling, line fishing.
I Koukourarata ana pakeke e noho ana, arā, he nohanga kāinga nei kei Horomaka, Hakaroa rānei nō tētahi hunga hī ika, hunga mahi pāmu itiiti noa nei, ā, otirā he hī ika nei te mahi a tōna pāpā (TTR 2000:201). / Her parents were living at Port Levy, that is at a community of fishermen and small farmers on Banks Peninsula, but fishing was what her father did.
koihi
1. (noun) telescope fish, Mendosoma lineatum have jaws that extend outwards. They use these to prey on plankton and small fish. Telescope fish grow to around 40 centimetres and are found mainly in southern waters from Kapiti Island to the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
Ko te tāmure me te hake ki te raki, ko te tāngahangaha, te koihi, te puaihakarua ki te tonga (Te Ara 2013). / Snapper and kingfish are to the north, while banded wrasse, telescope fish and sea perch are to the south.
2. (verb) (rangā,-a) to pull up by the roots.
E kore e taea te ranga i te rākau i te kaha tangata - he hōhonu rawa nō ngā pakiaka (TWMNT 8/9/1874:230). / The tree cannot be pulled up by human strength - because the roots are too deep.
3. (verb) to set in motion, transport.
Ko te kōrero hoki a Ngāti Tūwharetoa ko ngā pua manu he mea ranga mai nā Māui nō Hawaiki rā anō (M 2004:336). / Ngāti Tūwharetoa narratives say that the berry-bearing trees for birds were brought by Māui from Hawaiki.
Synonyms: whakarewa
4. (noun) group, team, company (of people).
Mō te nuinga o ngā kirimana tuhi marautanga pēnei, e rua noa iho ngā rōpū whai wāhi mai, arā ko tētahi ranga tuhi, me ētahi kāhui kaiwhakamāherehere hei āwhina i ia kaituhi (HM 3/1993:6). / For the majority of the curriculum writing contracts like this, there were just two groups involved, namely a writing team and some clusters of advisers to assist each writer.
5. (noun) shoal (of fish), school (of fish).
He nui noa atu te ranga ika e heke ana i taua awa i ngā tau katoa (TWMNT 24/3/1874:76). / Great shoals of fish come down that river every year.
Synonyms: matatuhi
maihea
1. (noun) sinker (for a fishing line), fishing-line sinker.
I kawea e te Māori ngā mātauranga hī ika o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa ki Aotearoa, ka whakamātauria ngā matau, ngā maihea, ngā maimoa kia tika ai ki ngā wai o Aotearoa (Te Ara 2016). / Māori brought Pacific fishing knowledge to New Zealand and fish-hooks, sinkers and lures were trialled and adapted to the waters of New Zealand.
Synonyms: makihea
2. (noun) weight (for measuring mass).
E inea ai te taumaha o tētahi mea, ka whakatairitea ki te papatipu o ētahi maihea, pērā i te maihea 500g, te 1kg me te 2kg (TRP 2010:159). / The weight of something can be measured by comparing it to the mass of particular weights such as 500g, 1kg and 2kg (TRP 2010:159).
makihea
1. (noun) sinker (for a fishing line), fishing-line sinker.
Kupenga kōtuku, me ōna mea katoa, me ngā aho, me ngā matau, me ngā makihea katoa (TW 11/12/1875:423). / Hand nets with all the accessories, fishing lines, fish-hooks and fishing-line sinkers.
Synonyms: maihea
2. (noun) driftnet fishing.
hokarari
1. (noun) ling, Genypterus blacodes - an orange-pink fish, irregularly mottled with creamy white, white below. Body elongated, eel-like, skin slimy.
See also hoka
2. (noun) stone (of fruit), seed.
Ka tukia te hīnau, ka opehia ki roto ki te hītari, ka ruia; nā ka horo ngā kiko ki te kete pai, ko ngā nganga ki roto i te hītari (W 1971:53). / The hīnau berries are pounded, scooped into the sieve and shaken; so the flesh falls into the nice basket, while the stones remain in the sieve.
3. (noun) core (of a boil).
Ki te puta te nganga o te whēwhē ki waho, ka ora (W 1971:228). / If the core of the boil comes out you'll be fine.
4. (noun) shell, husk (of shell fish, fruit, etc.).
Kia maroke ngā pata raihi kātahi ka wakuwakua ngā nganga (PK 2008:514). / When the rice grains are dry the husks are removed.
mararī
1. (noun) greenbone butterfish, Odax pullus - an endemic reef-dwelling fish with an elongated, cylindrical body. Fins large, especially the dorsal and anal fins. Adult fish are bright blue with indistinct, broken, paler tan line mid-laterally. Found at depths shallower than 20 m around the coast.
Ko ētahi o āna mahi i te moutere he hopu haere, he kohi haere rānei i ētahi atu momo kai, arā, i te kekeno, i te kina, i te pāua, i te pākirikiri, i te mararī, i te kohikohi me te weka (TTR 1996:72). / Some of her tasks on the island was hunting and gathering various types of food, such as seals, sea-urchins, pāua, blue cod, butterfish, trumpeter and weka.
pātikinui
1. (noun) New Zealand brill, Colistium guntheri - a greenish-brown fish with fine dark mottling in longitudinal lines on upper surface. Body broadly oval with projecting hook-like snout and very small eyes. An endemic fish found south of Cook Strait to Otago inhabiting sand and mud seabed in inshore waters, harbours and estuaries to depths of 100 m. Sometimes written as two words, i.e. pātiki nui.
tarao
1. (noun) greenbone butterfish, Odax pullus - an endemic reef-dwelling fish with an elongated, cylindrical body. Fins large, especially the dorsal and anal fins. Adult fish are bright blue with indistinct, broken, paler tan line mid-laterally. Found at depths shallower than 20 m around the coast.
