2. (noun) adzing, hewing, chopping.
E toru tau a Piri e akona ana e Eramiha Kapua ki ngā tikanga o te hahau i te rākau, o te whakairo, o te karakia me ngā tikanga anō hoki o te tapu e pā kau ana ki te mahi whakairo (TTR 1998:143). / Piri spent three years being taught by Eramiha Kapua on the techniques of adzing wood, carving, ritual chants and rules of tapu proper to the art of carving.
3. (noun) stroke (golf), swing (golf).
4. (noun) charm for curing tumours, chemotherapy.
hauhau
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) (hāua) to strike, chop, hit repeatedly with a weapon or implement, bat.
Nō te matenga o Paurini, he rangatira nō Ngāti Tūwharetoa, i Te Pōrere i Oketopa, ka rere atu te pouaru ki a Kawepō, kātahi ka hāua atu ā muri o te māhunga ki te patu (TTR 1990:31). / When Paurini, a chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, was killed at Te Pōrere in October, the widow leapt at Kawepō and clubbed him on the back of his head.
Synonyms: rākau
2. (noun) bludgeoning, clubbing, striking, hitting.
E ai ki a Paipai, ka wehewehea ngā tānga o rātou hei whaiwhai i te moa kia ngenge. Kia pau te hau i te omanga, kua ngāwari noa iho te hauhau kia mate (TTR 1990:94). / According to Paipai, they were divided into relays to pursue the moa so they became exhausted. When they were tired from running away, clubbing them to death was quite easy.
3. (noun) bludgeon, club, baton, truncheon, cudgel, stick for hitting things.
Kāore i roa e whakatangi ana i tana pepe, ka tau atu he manu ki te pae, kātahi ka hāua ki te hauhau manu (PK 2008:87). / He hadn't been playing his leaf for imitating bird calls for long before a bird landed on the perch and then it was struck with a stick for killing birds.
Synonyms: matire
tapahi
1. (verb) (-a) to cut, chop, hack, cut up, operate, amputate.
E mahara ana ahau ki ētahi kupu nā Te Karaiti mō te tapahi i te ringa, i te waewae rānei, mō te hīkaro hoki i te kanohi (TP 1/12/1901:5). / I remember some words by Christ about cutting off hands or legs and plucking out eyes.
Synonyms: whāwhā, whakahaere, whakamahi
2. (noun) cutting, cutting off, amputation.
Te kitenga o te tākuta ka mea atu kia tere tonu te tapahi i te ringaringa i ngaua rā (TTT 1/9/1921:10). / When the doctor saw it he said that the hand that had been bitten should be amputated immediately.
2. (verb) (-a) to cut down, kill.
Ka mārama tātau kei ngā whenua katoa o te ao te mate nei e tope ana i te tāngata (TTT 1/9/1928:849). / We understand that in every country of the world this disease is killing people.
Synonyms: tinei, tukituki, whakahinga, whakamate, patu
3. (noun) cutting down, chopping, felling.
Ko rātau kei te mahi i ngā mahi tūtūā a te Pākehā, te kutikuti hipi, te tope i ngā ngahere, te hanga taiapa, te mahi rori, te patu hipi, patu kau i roto i ngā whare whakamātao mīti, te horoi wūru, te mahi wāpu (TTT 1/8/1923:4). / They are working in the lowly jobs of the Pākehā, sheep shearing, felling forests, building fences, road works, slaughtering sheep and cattle in the freezing works, wool scouring and work on the wharves.
tuatua
1. (verb) (-ina) to chop repeatedly.
Ko tētahi mate o ngā manu ko te tuatuanga i ngā ngahere, e tae ana ki te rau mano ngā eka e tuatuaina ana i te tau kotahi (Ngā Kōrero Pāremete 20/8/1889). / A particular problem for the birds is the cutting down of the forests, including a hundred thousand acres felled in one year.
topetope
1. (verb) (-a) to cut up, slice, divide.
Ka huihui rātou, ka whakatakoto i ā rātou kaupapa ki te ono kai, ki te tapahi harakeke, ki te topetope rākau, hei hoko atu ki te Pākehā kia riro mai ai he pū hoata (TTR 1990:90). / They gathered together and set out their plan to plant crops, cut flax, chop down trees to trade with the Pākehā to obtain muskets.
2. (noun) felling, chopping down, cutting down.
Ka rāhuitia ngā kauri, me whakamutu te topetope (TTR 1990:5). / Kauri trees were protected and felling them was banned.
houhou
1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to dig up, obtain by digging.
Kei Te Tararo, kei Remuera, kei Tāmaki, kei Papakura, ā, kei ngā tini tāone o ngā hōia kaumātua, e houhou ana te tupu o ngā kai, e hūmārie ana te āhua (MM.TKM 1/1/1855:5). / At Epsom, Remuera, Tāmaki, Papakura, and the various military pensioner settlements, the plantings of crops are being dug up and all is beautiful.
2. (verb) (-a) to put holes in, chop into pieces.
Ehara, totohu tonu iho ngā waka kua houhoua rā hoki ngā waka waiho kia pūtārera ana (TP 1/1913:2). / Heavens, the canoes sank immediately because holes had been chopped into them so that they were in splinters.
2. (verb) to earth up (in cultivation), loosen the soil.
E karanga tonu ana tēnei whakataukī kia ngāwari te tangata ki te kō; kia ngāwari ki te rui, ki te whakatō; kia ngāwari ki te tokitoki; kia ngāwari ki te hauhake (KO 15/9/1883:1). / This whakataukī is calling for people to dig gently; to sow and plant gently; to earth up the soil gently; and to harvest gently.
3. (noun) tītoki, Alectryon excelsus - common on river flats this tree has alternating, almost opposite leaves in four to six pairs, mostly without teeth. Flowers have no petals. Small seed capsules are brownish and hairy but open to reveal the large, black, glossy seeds and striking scarlet surrounds.
See also tītoki
2. promontory, headland.
3. a term applied to a tree chopped all round in felling.
4. (adjective) bare, plain, without adornment or appendages.
