kauhuri
1. (verb) (-a,-hia,-tia) to turn bottom upwards, flip over, dig, turn over the soil, swing on a pivot (as a door), flip over.
Ko Ira kē ki te kauhuri i tā māua māra, me ētahi anō o aku whanaunga (HP 1991:261). / It was Ira instead who dug over our garden, along with some of my other relatives.
2. (modifier) swinging on a pivot (as a door).
Ka tae mai pea te Pākehā, ka mōhio te Māori ki te tatau kauhuri. / When the Pākehā arrived the Māori probably learnt about doors that swing.
3. (noun) cultivation.
Ko te iwi kaha atu tēnei mō te kauhuri i te whenua ki te hāpara (TPH 15/11/1900:5). / These people are very skilled in the cultivation of the land with the shovel.
4. (noun) hinge.
porotēteke
1. (verb) to be turned right over, upside down, somersault, flip.
He maha ngā kaipuke e tahuri ana i te māmā, i te kore utanga o runga, te putanga mai o te hau kua tikoki, kua porotēteke (TP 8/1908:6). / Many ships capsize when they are light and there's no cargo on board and when the wind gets up they become unstable and turn upside down.
2. (noun) somersault, handstand - stand on the hands with the feet in the air.
tūapu
1. (loan) (noun) two-up - a gambling game with bets placed on a showing of two heads ot two tails when two coins are flipped.
Ko tētahi o ngā tākaro a ngā koroua he whiu kapa ki te rangi. Ana ki te ōrite i te taunga iho, kua waimarie, nē? Me ōrite te taunga mai ki te whenua. E kīia nei he tūapu (Milroy 2015). / One of the games of the elderly men was tossing pennies into the air. And if they landed alike, you won, didn't you? They must land the same way up. That's called two-up.
