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hone

1. (verb) (-a,-tia) to plunder, acquire wrongfully.

Ka rere a Ruawharo rāua ko Tūpai ki roto o te kupenga ki te hone i ngā ika pūwharu mā rāua (JPS 1907:221). / Ruawharo and Tūpai rushed into the net and stole the choicest fish for themselves.

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Synonyms: romi, marure, mūrei, muru, pāhua, pāhuahua, kōhunu, hunuhunu, pārure, whakarekereke

Hōne

1. (loan) (personal name) John.

Ko te kī, i whānau a Hōne (Hōni) Tāmati Pereki i Ōrākei, i Ākarana i te 4 o Āperira 1853 (TTR 1996:7). / The word is that John Thomas Blake was born at Ōrākei, Auckland, on 4 April 1853.

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See also Teone

Synonyms: Teone, Hoani, Hone

hone

1. (noun) ocean swell.

Ko te uma o te kōtiro e ka whakaea, ānō he hone moana āio i te waru e ūkura ana hoki i te tōanga o te rā, ka rite ki te kiri o tuawahine (NM 1928:58). / The girl's breast, oh when she breathed it was like the calm ocean swell in the eighth month (January) and the glowing of the setting of the sun was like the skin of our heroine.

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Hone

1. (loan) (personal name) John.

See also Hōne, Teone

Synonyms: Teone, Hoani, Hōne

Tūwhare, Hone

1. (personal name) (1922-2008) Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Popoto, Te Uri-o-Hau - Renowned Poet and socialist who was born at Kokewai, Mangakāhia but spent most of the second part of his life at Kaka Point on the Catlins coast. Poetry collections include No Ordinary Sun and Come Rain Hail. Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1969 and again in 1974. At the end of his two year term he published Piggy Back Moon which was shortlisted in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Awarded the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship in 1991. Named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate in 1999. Among ten of Aotearoa/New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists at a ceremony in 2003. In 2003, awarded one of the three inaugural Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.

Tūhawaiki, Hōne

1. (personal name) (?-1844) Ngāi Tahu; leader, whaler, mariner and trader. His home was on Ruapuke Island but he moved about his tribal territory. He led successful battles against Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 152-159;)

Heke Pōkai, Hōne Wiremu

1. (personal name) (?-1850) Ngā Puhi; war leader famous for cutting down the flagpole at Kororāreka because chiefly authority had been subservient to the British Crown.

(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 68;)

Kawiti, Te Ruki

1. (personal name) (?-1854) Ngā Puhi; chief and warrior who resisted alienation of Māori land to colonists, fighting beside Hone Heke in the northern war of 1845-1846 against the British.

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