poro
1. (verb) (-a) to cut short, trim off, abbreviate, shorten.
Ki te titiro te tangata ki tētahi o aua kuīni i te wā kua mahue tōna kōpare, ka poroa tōna kakī (TWMNT 19/5/1874:123). / If a person saw one of those queens at a time when she was without her veil, he would be beheaded.
See also tīporo
2. (verb) (-a) to amputate, cut off.
I te roa e tioa ana e te mātaratara, ka poroa ngā matimati o tana waewae mauī (PK 2008:931). / Because he was so long exposed to the intense cold, the toes of his left foot were amputated.
3. (verb) to be finished.
4. (noun) block, log, butt-end, termination, piece of anything cut or broken off short.
E rere ana te poti i tētahi awa hōhonu, awa whānui, kātahi ka tūtuki te poti ki te poro rākau, ka tahuri (TTT 1/3/1924:14). / The boat was sailing along a deep, wide river when it struck a log and capsized.
Synonyms: rōku, poro rākau
5. (noun) prism.
He āhua ahu-3 te poro, he momo matarau. He ōrite te āhua o ngā pito e rua, he whakarara hoki. Katoa ērā atu o ngā mata, he tapawhā hāngai te āhua. Ka tapaina te poro ki te āhua o ōna pito (TRP 2010:205). / The prism is a 3-dimensional shape, a type of polyhedron. Two of the faces are identical and parallel - these are the two ends of the prism. All other faces are rectangular in shape. The prism is named after the shape of its ends (TRP 2010:205).
6. (noun) golden oyster, Anomia trigonopsis - a bivalve mollusc found on the underside of stones, other shells and wharf piles from low tide level to depths of 45 m. It has a thin wrinkled upper valve.
tuki
1. (verb) (-a) to attack, knock down, tackle, butt, gore.
Ko 1836 pea te tau i whakatika atu ai te taua o Ngāti Porou, o Ngāti Kahungunu me tō rāua uku o Ngā Puhi i raro i a Te Wera Hauraki, ki te tuki i a Te Whānau-a-Apanui i Toka-ā-Kuku pā i Te Moana-a-Toi-te-huatahi (TTR 1990:164). / About 1836 a war party of Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu, with an allied group of Ngā Puhi led by Te Wera Hauraki, went to attack Te Whānau-a-Apanui at Toka-ā-Kuku pā, in the Bay of Plenty.
2. (verb) (-a) to ram, bump, crash into.
Haere mai tonu te taraka nei, tukia tonuhia te taha katau o te pahi, hahaetia ana taua taha katoa (HP 1991:8). / This truck continued coming, crashing right into the right side of the bus, tearing away all that side.
3. (verb) (-a) to beat, pound.
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 seeds remain in the sieve.
Synonyms: kuru, kurukuru, pao, āki, kōmekemeke, pātuki, pāuna, hamahama, pehu, patupatu, tātā, poutuki, whākuru
4. (verb) (-a) to give the timing (to paddlers).
6. (noun) carved wooden mouthpiece of a pūkāea or calabash.
7. (noun) paddling song (to give the timing to paddlers).
He waiata tuki waka, hei whakahauhau i ngā kaihoe (M 2007:160). / A paddling song to encourage the paddlers.
2. (verb) (-ngia,-tia) to interrupt, butt in, interject.
Ka kohikotia e Te Pukenui te kōrero (W 1971: 125). / Te Pukenui interrupted the narrative.
3. (noun) genealogy recited in a selective way by not following a single line of descent.
4. (noun) flash (for a camera).
I taua wā tonu, ka pā mai te kohiko o te kāmera (TWK 51:22). / At that very moment the flash of the camera went off.
2. (noun) knob, butt (of a weapon).
Ka tohu atu ia ki te reke o tana taiaha, arā ki te arero (TP 1/1909:7). / He pointed with the butt of his taiaha, that is with the carved point.
2. (verb) (-tia) to place up high.
Ka pōiketia rawatia ngā tiakarete ki runga i te kāpata kia kore ai e taea e ngā tamariki nonohi. / The chocolates were placed right up high in the cupboard so that they could not be reached by the small children.
3. (noun) top end, butt end, top (of a tree, etc.).
Ka hoki a Hourangi, tae tonu atu haere tonu ki te wāhi i takoto ai te waka, ka whakawhirinaki atu ki runga i te pōike o te kei o te waka (JPS 1922:119). / Hourangi returned home, and on his arrival went straight to the place where the canoe lay and leaned against the top of the stern of the vessel.
2. (noun) fern root prepared for a journey.
