2. (loan) (modifier) milking.
Ko ngā kau miraka, mehemea he tangata hokohoko miraka, ka tirohia anō āna kau (TJ 21/6/1898:2). / With milking cows, if there’s a person selling milk then his cows are inspected.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, kutētē, whakatētē, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
3. (loan) (noun) milk.
Ko ngā kau miraka, mehemea he tangata hokohoko miraka, ka tirohia anō āna kau (TJ 21/6/1898:2). / With milking cows, if there’s a person selling milk then his cows are inspected.
2. (noun) earthworm of milky colour - found in forests and used for eeling.
Karia ai ngā tarawa me ngā waiū i roto i ngā ngāherehere (HP 1991:15). / Tarawa and waiū earthworms are dug for in the forests.
See also noke waiū
3. (noun) relative, relation.
Kātahi ka whakataka a Ngāti Rangiwewehi e ia, e Te Moemiti, ka tangi ki tōna waiū (JPS 1893:229). / Then Te Moemiti organised a war party of Ngāti Rangiwewehi to avenge his relative's death.
tūrepo
1. (noun) large-leaved milk tree, Streblus banksii, small-leaved milk tree, Streblus heterophyllus - spreading canopy trees growing up to 12 m high with a short, stout trunk. The large-leaved variety is found in lowland forests as far south as the Marlborough Sounds, while the small-leaved variety is found in moist areas in both the North and South Islands.
kutētētanga
1. (noun) milking.
Synonyms: kutētē, miraka, whakatētē, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
niho kaiū
1. (noun) baby tooth, milk tooth.
Kia ono marama pea ia nei te pakeke o te kōhungahunga, ka tīmata te puta ake o ōna niho kaiū (HJ 2012:262). / When the infant is about six months old, her milk teeth begin to appear.
Synonyms: niho kai waiū
niho kai waiū
1. (noun) baby tooth, milk tooth - children's teeth which are replaced by permanent ones.
Kia whai niho kai waiū a pēpē, pai noa iho kia kainga tonutia e ia te waiū, engari kei ngaua te ū (HJ 2012:262). / When baby has milk teeth it's still alright for her to continue to drink breast milk, but be careful in case the breasts are bitten.
Synonyms: niho kaiū
2. (modifier) milking.
Ko te mahi nei, he utauta kōhatu ki runga i tētahi kāta nui, ka mau ki tētahi wāhi kē, ka kurukuru kia pākarukaru, kātahi ka harihari ki te whakakī haere i ngā wāhi poharu o te iāri kau whakatētē (HP 1991:26). / This task was to load stones onto a big cart, take them to another place, break them up, then take them to fill the boggy parts of the milking cow yard.
3. (noun) milking.
Ka mutu taku whakatētē i aku kau i ngā ata, ka tukua e au ki roto i tō rātau taiepa, ka haere au ki te hopu i te hōiho (HP 1991:25). / When my milking of my cows was finished in the morning, I let them into their paddock and went to catch the horse.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, kutētē, miraka, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
whakatētētanga
1. (noun) milking.
E rua ngā whakatētētanga i te rā. Kotahi i te ata, kotahi i te ahiahi (HP 1991:25). / There were two mikings per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, kutētē, miraka, whakatētē, mirakatanga, kurutētē
whare miraka
1. (loan) (noun) milking shed, cowshed.
Whakawhiwhia ana a Maata ki tētahi pūtea tārewa nei a te Tari Māori i te tau 1941, arā, hei hanga whare miraka hou, hei hoko mīhini mai hoki mō roto (TTR 2000:29). / In 1941 Martha received a loan from the Native Department to build a new milking shed and to buy the machines for it.
kurukuruwhatu
1. (verb) to curdle (as milk and in the making of cheese), set (as junket).
Ki te mea e rite ana te werawera o te waiū ua tukua te reneti ki roto, kia kotahi hāora, e rua rānei ka kurukuruwhatu te waiū (MM.TKM 25/10/1849:2). / If the heating of the milk is done and the rennet has been added, after one or two hours the milk will have curdled.
2. (noun) curd (made from milk).
I muri iho o ngā hāora e rua me tango mai te tīhi i te tāpu, me hoatu ki roto ki ngā wai karera i ringihia mai i te tāpu i tangohia mai ai ngā kurukuruwhatu (MM.TKM 8/11/1849:1). / After two hours the cheese should be removed from the vat, and placed in the whey poured into the vat from which the curds were taken.
kutētē
1. (verb) (-tia) to squeeze out (fluid), milk, express.
E waru tekau ā rātau kau e kutētē ana rātau (HP 1991:17). / They had eighty cows they were milking.
See also kōtētē
2. (noun) breast pump.
3. (modifier) squeezing out (fluid), milking.
Hoki rawa mai a Eruera ki Te Teko i tana mahi kutētē kau i Kamo (EM 2002:43). / When Eruera finally returned to Te Teko his job was milking cows at Kamo.
4. (noun) squeezing out (fluid), milking.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, miraka, whakatētē, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
