māpere
1. (noun) middle finger, middle toe.
I konei ka whara tana ringa mauī, ka ngaro te māpere me te mānawa (TTR 1990:220). / Here he was wounded losing the two middle fingers of his left hand.
Synonyms: tōroa
2. (noun) cutty grass, Gahnia setifolia - a native sedge of light forest and scrub with long, harsh, cutting leaves growing in a tuft. Flowers are tall, weeping on a solid triangular stem. Reddish-brown seeds.
māpere
1. (loan) (verb) (-hia,-tia) to ballot, conscript.
Hei tā te kāwanatanga hoki he whakatuma, he kaihore kē te mahi a Waikato, ā, nā te mea i māperetia noatia ko ngā Māori anake o te rohe o Waikato–Maniapoto, i kaha kē atu ai te whakaaro o Tainui e tūkinotia ana rātou (TTR 1996:45). / But the government considered it was defiance, what Waikato was doing was disloyal and because only the Māori from the Waikato–Maniapoto district were conscripted, Tainui feelings of injustice were compounded.
2. (loan) (noun) marble.
He māpere te kōhatu, kei te mahia mai i Itari (TTT 1/11/1921:2). / The stone is marble and it is being made in Italy.
3. (loan) (noun) ballot, conscription.
Nō te māpere o te 25 o Hune 1918, ka whakamenetia anō a Tonga Mahuta. Riro ana nā te rārangi ingoa muna a te kaute nui a te kāwanatanga te ingoa o Tonga i whakatūturu (TTR 1996:81). / Tonga Mahuta was called up in the ballot of 25 June 1918. Tonga's name was obtained using the confidential roll of the government's census.
