kaho
1. (noun) crossbar, crossbeam, roof batten, fence rail, horizontal wall batten in a meeting house.
Kaho tuanui: Ko te kaho tapu o te whare (M 2006:242). / Roof batten: The sacred batten of the house.
Synonyms: kahokaho
2. (noun) horizontal batten of a tukutuku panel.
Ko te rākau tūmatakahuki whakamatua i ngā kaho tukutuku (M 2005:300). / The main upright rod on the front of tukutuku slats.
3. (noun) rauhuia, Linum monogynum - an endemic coastal shrub which grows into a soft bush up to 50 cm, with attractive small grey leaves and flaring white flowers produced in spring and summer.
See also rauhuia
Synonyms: rauhuia, nao, matamatahuia
kaho
1. (stative) cream, yellowish, reddish - anything light coloured.
Kia kaho haere ngā rōpere, ka katohia, ka tukuna ki ngā toa (PK 2008:180). / When the strawberries colour up, they are picked and dispatched to the shops.
Synonyms: pūwhero, kuratea, mawera, mākurakura, kehu, whewhero, pūwherowhero, wherowhero
kāho
1. (loan) (noun) cask, barrel, keg.
Ko te rā i kitea ai te tinihanga o ētahi o te Hāhi o Rōma, kua whakapūrangatia hoki ngā kāho paura i raro i te whare komiti o ngā rangatira i Ingarangi, hei whakamate i a rātou (Ma 1851:13). / It was the day of the discovery of the plot of some members of the Roman Catholic Church who had heaped up casks of gunpowder under the House of Lords in England in order to kill them.
arapaki
1. (noun) ornamental lattice-work, used particularly between carvings around the walls of meeting houses. These panels consist of vertical stakes (traditionally made of kākaho), horizontal rods (traditionally made of stalks of bracken-fern or thin strips of tōtara wood), and flexible material of flax, kiekie and pīngao, which form the pattern. Each of the traditional patterns has a name.
Ko Tākitimu te whare pai ngā waihanga, engari nō taku kitenga i a Porourangi heoi anō kua ngaro ōku mahara ki a Takitimu, kua riro katoa kua whaiāipo ki a Porourangi; i te tamatāne o te āhua, o te tū o te whare; i te rite, i te ātanga, o ngā whakairo, o ngā pou, o ngā pakitara, o te tungaroa, me te whatitoka, me te roro, me te matapihi, me ngā arapaki, kāore he rite i i kitea e ahau i te motu katoa nei, hāunga hoki ngā tuhituhi o ngā heke me te tāhū. (TP 1/7/1902:6). / Tākitimu was built beautifully, but when I saw Porourangi my thoughts about Tākitimu were forgotten and I fell in love with Porourangi; the youthful masculinity of the house's appearance and structure; the architecture and beauty of the carvings, posts, walls, the back wall and the door, verandah, window and the ornamental lattice-work, and not to mention the paintings of the rafters and the ridgepole.
tukutuku
1. (verb) (-a,-na) to let go, let down, get down, send.
Ko tētehi o aua keke i waiho hei tukutuku ki ngā whanaunga, i ia wāhi, i ia wāhi o Aotearoa, o Te Waipounamu (TW 21/2/1876:72). / One of those cakes was left to be sent to relatives in each part of the North and South Islands.
Synonyms: whakahinga, whakaheke, tuku, whakahoro
2. (verb) to decorate with lattice-work, make tukutuku panels.
He mea whakairo hoki, he mea kōwhaiwhai, he mea tukutuku, hei pupuri i te ātanga, i te wehi, i te haratau o ērā taonga a ō tātau tīpuna i roto i tēnei o ngā whare o te Atua (TTT 1/12/1925:336). / And it was carved and decorated with rafter paintings and lattice-work to retain the beauty, awesomeness and relevance of those treasures of our ancestors in this particular house of God.
3. (noun) ornamental lattice-work - used particularly between carvings around the walls of meeting houses. Tukutuku panels consist of vertical stakes (traditionally made of kākaho), horizontal rods (traditionally made of stalks of bracken-fern or thin strips of tōtara wood), and flexible material of flax, kiekie and pīngao, which form the pattern. Each of the traditional patterns has a name.
Kei te kōwhaiwhai, kei te tukutuku, kei te tāniko ngā tauira hangarite maha (PK 2008:74). / Rafter paintings, lattice-work and tāniko have many symmetrical patterns.
See also arapaki, kaokao, mūmū, niho taniwha, papaki rango, pātikitiki, poutama, purapura whetū, roimata toroa, takitoru, waharua, wāmu
Synonyms: harapaki
4. (noun) grid.
Me mōhio te ākonga ki te kimi i te tawhiti i waenganui i ētahi pūwāhi e rua i runga i tētahi tukutuku (Pa 1996:90). / The student should know how to find the distance between two points on a grid.
